Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/15/06 00:07

"J. Clarke" wrote ...
> PTravel wrote:
>> -- it would eliminate any incentive to creation and the stream of
>> professionally-produced content would evaporate.
>
> You've never spent much time with artists, have you? They don't need no
> steenkeeng _incentive_. As for the "stream of professionally produced
> content" "evaporating", and I should care about this because?

Apparently you've never spent much time with the people who
put the deals together to pay the artists so they have time to
create "art" instead of waiting tables or mowing lawns.

>> More than that, the
>> United States economy has, increasingly, become a system whose only
>> value is its intellectual property.
>
> Uh, don't look now, but the Japanese own major chunks of that particular
> American "intellectual property".

Which side are you arguing for?

>> The only ones who want video to be "freely copiable" in the sense the
>> way that you're describing are a bunch of children and young adults who
>> have no conception of the relationship between intellectual property and
>> property interests.
>
> Again, you have a poll to present?

How old are you? Have you ever worked for a living?
Never mind. Rhetorical question. Plonk

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