Posted by Christopher Campbell on 12/09/06 06:18

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:30:08 -0800, J. Clarke wrote
(in article <eld02g01c9g@news2.newsguy.com>):

> On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:42:03 -0800, Christopher Campbell wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 06:15:06 -0800, Bill wrote
>> (in article <ibOdnUGzArj_7uTYnZ2dnUVZ_vbinZ2d@golden.net>):
>>
>>> In the movie "The Queen", Tony Blair is heard to utter plaintively,
>>> "will somebody please step in and save these Royals from themselves...."
>>>
>>> Some days I think the media should just give all the copyright holders
>>> out there exactly what they ask for and take down all the copyrighted
>>> material, take it off the air, off TV, off the internet. In fact, they
>>> should refuse to pay to broadcast ANYTHING other than material freely
>>> submitted by independent artists who want the exposure, or their own
>>> staff writers and videographers and musicians.
>>>
>>> Oh my god-- no Celine Dion on the radio anymore? The horror!
>>>
>>> There would be a bruising year or two of losses, and then the public
>>> would adopt an entirely new generation of artists who, eureka, discover
>>> that it is good and profitable to let the public see and hear and--
>>> gasp-- copy your work.
>>>
>>> When diesel trains were introduced, didn't the unions try to insist that
>>> the stokers and firemen keep their jobs?
>>
>> So, what are you saying? That musicians and actors should not be paid
>> anymore?
>
> I'd like to see all of them paid a decent living wage instead of some of
> them with little talent and lots of luck and a good promoter being
> zillionaires while others who have far more skill and training wait tables
> to make ends meet.
>
>

And you are just the guy to decide who has talent and who has not, no doubt,
as well as what a decent living wage is. Until then, because you don't like
how much money some of them make, you think it is okay to steal from them? So
you don't mind if people who make less money than you or who think you make
more money than you are worth steal from you?

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