On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:39 AM, andie_nachgeborenen wrote:
> The free rider/collective action problem is precisely that there is
> a strong incentive to free ride, leading to a suboptimal or no
> amount of public goods being created...the virtually costless (to
> the reader) availability of these things to anyone with a computer
> and access to the net, may threaten the ability of producers to be
> paid for creating this work, but don't be surprised by the
> predictable result...
In the history of mankind,. virtually all worthwhile products of intellectual and artistic labor were created without protection of copyright.
> ...Unlike musicians, writers and publishers of dense treatises on
> unpopular material cannot even hope to treat their published work as
> sort of a loss leader for live performance. So, morality aside, what
> are they and we to do?
>
Establish a guaranteed subsistence income allowing artists and writers
to live and work. For a serious writer or artist, communication of
important and creative work is itself all the compensation and
incentive needed. The others we can do without.
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol