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On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:39 AM, andie_nachgeborenen wrote:
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>> 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...
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> In the history of mankind,. virtually all worthwhile products of intellectual and artistic labor were created without protection of copyright.
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>> ...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?
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> 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.
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> Shane Mage
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> "L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté."
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> Bardo Thodol
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