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Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:03:28 -0000 |
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Zoolook <mr.zoolook@gmail.com> writes:
> On 08/10/2010 20:22, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> In gnu.misc.discuss Zoolook<mr.zoolook@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Isn't the right way to support the artists to BUY it...
>>
>> It's one right way, but not the only one. Artists who perform on radio
>> or television don't get paid individually by each person
>> listening/watching.
>
> My mistake, I should have said PAY FOR it, rather then BUY it... Over
> here, we have a thing called the TV license, effectively, a tax on
> watching television. Each individual pays a subscription THAT
> THEORETICALLY the broadcasting companies use the income from to
> produce (or license from other production companies) the broadcasts
> they put out. So anyone listening or watching a performer HAS paid
> them!
Not likely enough. Because he is paying for a lot of things he
_doesn't_ hear.
> Just not directly.
So you _are_ comfortable with a system that does not use a direct
relation between listener and payment, but a central agency catering for
the distribution.
> Where I live, the electricity used in copying/downloading/streaming
> costs money, as does the medium I finally store it onto... that's
> decidedly LESS free then the virtually never ending supply of
> wood/cotton used to make furniture.
Where I live, you can't just go cut the trees you fancy.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, (continued)
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Zoolook, 2010/12/09
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Hadron, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Zoolook, 2010/12/09
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Zoolook, 2010/12/09
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war,
David Kastrup <=
- OT: cutting down trees. [Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war], Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: OT: cutting down trees. [Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war], David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: OT: cutting down trees. [Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war], Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: OT: cutting down trees. [Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war], Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Stuttgart 21 protests, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stuttgart 21 protests, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stuttgart 21 protests, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stuttgart 21 protests, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stuttgart 21 protests, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stuttgart 21 protests, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08