One big difference with passing around a print book compared to a
digital file...
One cannot read the book once it's in someone else's hands. Copying a
digital file and passing it on gives all new recipients the
opportunity to listen all at the same time. The real comparable would
be to delete your copy of a digital file when you pass along a copy.
Jeff
At 12:43 PM 4/19/2010, you wrote:
the closest I can come is that a cd or book that is handed to
someone else would be a rare incident that it is handed to a
thousand people within a week. yet, this can happen with digital material.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Homuth" <ja...@the-jdh.com>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:04 PM
Subject: If it's stealing, then please explain...
... Why it is sales and other revenue in every industry supposedly effected
by this so-called theft continue to increase. Year over year, DVD sales,
music sales, and movie rentals have undergone a significant increase, so
says just about every independant study not in the pocket of the RIAA and
MPAA. Which, escentially, is just about everyone who isn't the RIAA and
MPAA. Even online methods that are considered legal (Netflicks, etc) have
seen increases to their rental and streaming revenue, in spite of the fact
places like Blockbuster are establishing agreements with studios to arange
it so that Netflicks doesn't see new releases from those studios until 28
days after Blockbuster receives those same new releases. Also, while you're
at it, kindly explain why it is sales of books in just about every format
continue to increase, in spite of the fact industry lobbiests continue to
insist they're all taking a drastic nose dive the likes of which haven't
been seen since the Titanic sank.
Additionally, explain this to me. If getting your hands on a copy of a book,
CD or movie you haven't paid for is so illegal/immoral/otherwise a sin on
the same level as breaking into a store and taking something, why is the
exchanging/giving away/otherwise distributing of actual, hard copy books
still so popular? It's far from uncommon for avid book readers to read
something, then pass it on to someone else to read, who will then pass it on
to someone else while at the same time passing something they'd just
finished reading back the other way. That's not considered illegal, and has
been going on arguably since the invention of books. But yet, the same copy
of that book is being passed from one hand to another. It hasn't been paid
for by these other people. It hasn't resulted in any compensation whatsoever
to the author from these other people for the privelege of reading that
book. And no one's thrown a fit over billions upon billions of lost sales
dollars because each and every one of those people who dared crack that book
didn't pony up the money for their own copy before doing so. Why is that so
different from the digital era, in spite of the fact the only real change is
now if someone else wants to read that book, the original buyer doesn't have
to give up their copy? I'd really appreciate hearing the explanation for
that from some of these folks who seem to be under the impression we've all
joined the rip off the author/musician/actor bandwagon here. Anyone?
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