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Subject: Re: What would happen if he doesnt????

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 20:16:50 12/09/05

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On December 09, 2005 at 22:50:28, Antonio Dieguez wrote:

>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..

No
I did not say that I support doing something against the law.

Uri



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