Author: Uri Blass
Date: 18:41:18 12/09/05
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On December 09, 2005 at 21:25:35, Albert Silver wrote: >On December 09, 2005 at 21:18:49, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On December 09, 2005 at 21:03:59, Ed Murak wrote: >> >>>On December 09, 2005 at 20:59:11, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On December 09, 2005 at 20:49:26, Ed Murak wrote: >>> >>>>>To divorce author rights from other property rights is infeasible for legal and >>>>>also other logical reasons. >>>> >>>>No >>>> >>>>It is clearly logical >>>> >>>>The difference is the following difference: >>>>one car more for one person is one car less for another person. >>>>one program more for one person is not one program less for another person. >>> >>> >>>Oh, yes it is. >>> >>>It is _more than one_ future program less for a _lot_ of people. >>> >>>For certain. >> >>If I understand correctly you mean that there is going to be less future >>programs. >>You may be correct and may be not correct but it is a speculation and not >>something certain. >> >> >>> >>> >>>Also: >>>one car more for one person is one dollar more for some person. >>>one unpaid-for program more for one person may well be one dollar less for its >>>deserving author. >> >>And it also may be more dollars for him. >> >>The one who did not pay for it may tell other people about the program and part >>of them may pay for it and if he does not get it he may not tell about it to >>nobody and nobody is going to know about it. >> >>What is better for the author? >> >>1)selling 100 copies when nobody got illegal copy and only 1000 know about it? >>2)selling 1000 copies when 999000 got it illegally? >> >>Uri > >Do you honestly believe that more people decided to go out and pay for Hiarcs >and co. because they downloaded it illegally on the Internet and decided they >wanted to thank the author? Are you serious? > > Albert I do not claim that the same people who download illegally a program are going to pay it and it may be friends of friends of them that otherwise would not know about it. I have no opinion about it so I claim nothing but only that it is possible that people sell more thanks to illegal copies. Uri
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