Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war

[JEDIDIAH]

On 2010-09-25, Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>> In article <4C9CA1A9.8B995B66@web.de>,
>>>>  Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Uh comic rms.
>>>>
>>>> But at least he's consistent.  I haven't read the GNU Manifesto in a 
>>>> while, but I'm pretty sure he suggested a similar system to compensate 
>>>> programmers in a world where all software is free.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, we already have a program where the government pays artists: the 
>>>> National Endowment for the Arts.  Does anyone really want to see that 
>>>> become the sole way that artists get paid?
>>>
>>> Yup. In Ireland IMRO, Germany GEMA etc etc.
>>>
>>> And how does he propose to judge who gets what? Everyone gets the same
>>> or what?
>>
>> Uh, how about you actually first _read_ what you are flaming about?
>> It's not like he does not address this.
>
> Oh please.
>
> The whole subject is nonsense.
>
> It was semi rhetorical.
>
> People do work. They get paid. They try to protect their creations from
> thieves. Unprotected music/video/sw is stolen.

    Making the "product" less useful won't do that.

    Neither will taxing completely unrelated products.

    Neither will eroding basic property rights.

[deletia]

    Destroying the world for a fools errand is just not logical.

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