Re: FSF : lackeys of their corporate masters

[Stefaan A Eeckels]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 13:21:03 +0200
Martin Dickopp <expires-2004-06-30@zero-based.org> wrote:

> > It is fairly obvious that today, the
> > system is out of kilter, but it's equally obvious that the 
> > availability of cheap reproduction makes it impossible to
> > produce certain (maybe desirable) reproducible goods.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the latter is not obvious to me at all.
> What goods are impossible to produce due to cheap reproduction?

If it costs me $1000 to produce the first copy of my
music CD, and I cannot hope to recoup these
costs because the first bloke who buys it makes copies
without paying me a dime, I'll think twice about 
spending $1000. Maybe I'll revert to composing music
for the guy who pays me to play at his table, or
maybe I play someone else's music because I have
no time to compose. Or maybe I only make music to 
relax, and sell insurance for a living.

-- 
Stefaan
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