Roy Knapp
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Mon May 02, 2005 5:47 am Post subject:
Re: File protection |
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"CW" <cmagers@earthlink.net> wrote in
news:_B8de.3579$GQ5.1542@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:
| Quote: | This is the biggest load of BS I've seen in quite some time. Pull your
head out.
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How is this the biggest? Seriously, I protect files I send out. PDF is
sufficient to my needs for protection of my labor being copied. When I pull
my head out will I detect the odor of your insecurities?
I know I am unfamiliar with big business, corporate buffoonery, but just
exactly is it you are afraid someone will steal? ( I know, people will
steal a wet blanket if you let them, that is not the point.)
If someone is willing to go to great effort to steal something, it should
be worth the effort. If that effort is very much greater than the effort to
produce the product in the first place, then the market is telling us that
the product is overpriced, and the person going to the effort to swipe your
goodies COULD have just produced the goodies himself and had nearly the
same profit. In time he will, and the market lowers the price.
I am thinking like Adam Smith here, and he wasn't popular either.
Not trying to get your goat. I do want to know what your opinion is. And I
am myself unsettled about the concept of intellectual property. I tend to
come out on the conservative side. People who think everything should be
free are basically dishonest. With themselves. Present them with turnabout,
and it no longer seems like fair play. Everything costs someone something.
We have many dubious methods to shift the cost to someone else. Thus it is
"piracy" when it's software being stolen, and "intellectual property" when
it was a cad design.
I do not pirate software, I do no download music for "nothing". I will not.
At the same time, I have never seen a truly original design. It is always a
new arrangement of old music. Computer software even more so.
There, a larger load. More verbiage. Sorry for rambling, hope it was worth
the reading.
roy
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