Author: Antonio Dieguez
Date: 19:50:28 12/09/05
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On December 09, 2005 at 21:41:18, Uri Blass wrote: >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. so you are the one supporting taking away programs anyhow because speculations, I see..
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