You are correct that no copy has been created, but think of all the lost sales. Why, if that book goes through 10 or 12 people, I bet they lost hundreds of dollars in sales, and that's just one book. The HORROR!!!! /S
To say that industry insiders have a financial stake and consumers don't is absolutely the most ignorant thing you've said to date. This treaty will have far reaching effects on what consumers are allowed to do with things they spend their money on. If I am restricted from using something I own in a way I want, and am unable to sell it, with or without a resale tax, as a result, then I would say I certainly have a financial stake. More to the point, the government is supposed to represent the citizens of this country. While the individual industry reps may be citizens, they are acting on behalf of an entity that is not. Therefore they should be the ones who stand by while the treaty is hammered out with the best interest of the citizens of this nation in mind, not the corporate entities who are getting their way.
All I can say is that this is an excellent post. While I can believe the shrinking numbers at the box office, most of the reason that I seldom go to a movie theater has to do with the cost of admission and concessions. To take my family and buy them all a pop and some popcorn would easily run me nearly the same as a trip to the local steak house for prime rib. It's much easier to wait for a dvd, make my own popcorn, and watch it in an environment where I control the variables like temperature and sound volume.
I'll do it, since the accusation doesn't require any proof, who cares whether he is or not. I accuse him of being a music pirate. There, one more accusation should do it.
Is this not a copy of what you quoted in your post?
"In fact, according to Mark Rask, author of 1999’s American Autobahn, the average speed for cars is 130 km/h (81 mph); at any given moment, 15 percent are traveling 155 km/h (96 mph) or faster."
I believe the information YOU quoted agrees with Mike. It states (I'll repeat it for you again)"the average speed for cars is 130 km/h (81 mph)". Mike said the average speed is 80 MPH. Seems Mike's statement is close enough for the difference (1 MPH just in case you didn't notice) to be irrelevant to me.
And what electronic gadget has been released recently that didn't end up needing a firmware or software update of some sort. I don't think its the woman's case that fails the stink test.
Please show me where he has ever said there should be no market for recorded music. I will freely admit that he strongly hints that, but he also justifies it. Certainly perfecting their art took time, effort, and money, but that doesn't mean recordings, which cost next to nothing, should be outrageously expensive either. The scarcities should be, and are, worth something. The infinite, or nearly so, are not. In the modern age, when an artist can perform live in a different city every week, recordings should become a way of building a fan base, not your prime method of making money. Although, to be honest, recorded music has never been a prime money maker for the artist, has it?
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It is not competition when your "competitor" can cross-subsidize operations by using other people's money.
You would be correct if it was a continuing subsidy, and it might be in this case, I haven't looked into the details very much. However, if the subsidy they are looking for is to set up and start the ISP, not to continually fund it, then it is competition. Please let me know how many federally funded small business grants haven't led to some form of competition for someone.
The whole idea of providing people who live in rural areas with broadband access using tax-payer funds is repulsive. People choose where they live. All choices are about trade-offs. People who live in rural areas trade-off urban facilities for open spaces, nature, insulation from neighbors etc. That is a valid life-style choice. However, I do not have the responsibility to make their lives more comfortable.
Nor do the farmers who raise the food you eat have a responsibility to make your life more comfortable by ensuring your easy access to food, but they do it anyway. Why shouldn't they have access to the internet? It's not like they're asking to have free internet access, they will still have to pay their bill. Furthermore, although I can't stand taxes I have to pay them, as do you. That's where your responsibility ends. How the government uses the money isn't as open to your opinions, or mine for that matter, as you seem to believe. The point of the Broadband Stimulus funds was to develop more jobs by increasing the broadband infrastructure throughout the country. Seems to me like creating an infrastructure where one doesn't exist, or is very minimal, does just that.
Don't get me started on a CenturyLink rant. Their service is below par in any rural area. When asked why they don't upgrade to fiber like many of the local co-ops have, their response is that the co-ops have access to considerably more money than they do. Hmmmm, investing profits back into infrastructure and increasing customer loyalty seems like a good way to use money. Of course the short term impact on profits makes that completely untenable, despite the fact that it would probably increase long term profits.
And, last time I checked, while P2P doesn't run off of dedicated servers, each computer that hosts a file acts, to some degree as a sever. Its just a distributed network where each "server" has the file, but only shares a specific part with a particular swarm.
And here I thought artists were lining up and wanting to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. It seems to me it would be more free promotion, but what do I do know?
I have read a number of her works and enjoyed most of them. However, after being made aware of her position on copyright, I do not believe that I will be supporting her work any longer. While some may say that I am depriving myself, or the Sci Fi culture, of future works, I say it is a decision whose repercussions I am willing to live with. I have no desire to support someone who believes they should be entitled to monetary gain for work performed decades ago. As many have mentioned, the original idea of copyright, and patents for that matter, was to create a TEMPORARY monopoly, not an eternal source of revenue.
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"In fact, according to Mark Rask, author of 1999’s American Autobahn, the average speed for cars is 130 km/h (81 mph); at any given moment, 15 percent are traveling 155 km/h (96 mph) or faster."
I believe the information YOU quoted agrees with Mike. It states (I'll repeat it for you again)"the average speed for cars is 130 km/h (81 mph)". Mike said the average speed is 80 MPH. Seems Mike's statement is close enough for the difference (1 MPH just in case you didn't notice) to be irrelevant to me.
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You would be correct if it was a continuing subsidy, and it might be in this case, I haven't looked into the details very much. However, if the subsidy they are looking for is to set up and start the ISP, not to continually fund it, then it is competition. Please let me know how many federally funded small business grants haven't led to some form of competition for someone.
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Nor do the farmers who raise the food you eat have a responsibility to make your life more comfortable by ensuring your easy access to food, but they do it anyway. Why shouldn't they have access to the internet? It's not like they're asking to have free internet access, they will still have to pay their bill. Furthermore, although I can't stand taxes I have to pay them, as do you. That's where your responsibility ends. How the government uses the money isn't as open to your opinions, or mine for that matter, as you seem to believe. The point of the Broadband Stimulus funds was to develop more jobs by increasing the broadband infrastructure throughout the country. Seems to me like creating an infrastructure where one doesn't exist, or is very minimal, does just that.
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