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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts
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To: SmoothSail who wrote (53630)9/23/2000 6:16:03 PM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (1) of 63513
 
Think about how you would feel if you worked hard to come up with something original, worked hard at putting it together, spent a lot of money doing it and someone came along and stole it - took it without paying you. Same principle applies. It's stealing and there's no other way to look at it.

Very good point SS. You worked hard to come up with that and putting that together. It was original. You spent a lot of money on the computer you wrote it on.

And I came along and read it without paying you a dime.

Stop! Thief! <g>

My point is .... what the Net changes is that it provides a vastly more efficient distribution system. Like radio did, only better. The answer, it seems to me, is requiring the sites to pay a royalty if, on a mass market basis, they match up people who otherwise didn't know each other and facilitate their exchange of copyrighted material. If the site can pay those fees and still allow the exchanges for free (as radio does) ... so be it. My guess is we will arrive at a system in which the sites will have to charge a small toll but it will still be possible to fill up a CD for a couple or three bucks.

The middlemen to be cut out here are the people in the retail and wholesale distribution chain. They, like full service (LOL!) stockbrokers, will soon become less necessary to the average person UNLESS they can come up with a way to truly add value to the process.

Which is as it should be, IMO.
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