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2601056, RE: its not a perfect analogy
Posted by s t a r s k y, Wed Sep-14-11 09:46 AM
>>There is a big difference.
>>If I steal your cow you don't have it anymore. You can't
>sell
>>it, you can't get milk from it, you can't get meat from it.
>
>but if i had a cow, and every morning before i could get the
>cows milked, 10-20 ppl came in and milked the animal dry
>before i had a chance to get near her, any profits i could
>make would be lost for the day. if it happened every single
>day, id be even more fucked. which is more or less what
>happens with music.

But the cow can't be milked dry, that's the point. People could milk it all day and it would still give more. The fact that you spend years studying bio-engineering and developed the breeding program that produced this cow and now everybody can get free milk while all you get is the thanks from the villagers. Well, that is a problem.




>>If I download your album i've just made a copy. You still
>have
>>the music. The only thing that is lost is a -potential-
>sale.
>
>no it is a sale lost. before, unless someone copied an album
>for you, or you borrowed it from a library, you couldnt hear
>it. now you can hear a more or less perfect copy and dont have
>to buy it. even if you didnt like it, before you would prob
>have had to buy it (yeah you could listen to it on a listening
>station at tower or hmv but that takes time - most people
>would just hand over the cash). now you dont. so it
>essentially is a lost sale.

But it isn't. I don't have a lot of money, but I try to pay for as much music as my budget allows. The rest of the music I consume I download.
So let's say I have 10 albums, 2 of which I bought and 8 I illegally downloaded.
If I didn't had the option to download those 8 albums then I just wouldn't have heard them. There would be no lost sales because I didn't have the money to buy them in the first place.

I'm not saying this is true for everybody, but i'm willing to bet that a large percentage of this website couldn't afford the mp3 collection they have if they had to pay the official price.


>>I'm not saying downloading music isn't wrong. But copyright
>>infringement is not theft.
>
>sure. its just old fashioned music bootlegging really (where
>it WAS a lost sale, as people would be shelling out cash for a
>tape or cd), but without any costs involved. before people
>wanted shit for cheap (and bootleggers would have to charge
>for the cost of the copies they made), now they want it for
>free.

I think we want everything for free all the time, as long as we can get away with it.

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