(urth) Fw: Re: (no subject)

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Are there more dead people or living people?



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> And look what happened to Mozart..
> HE DIED!!!
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> --- On Wed, 5/20/09, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> From: brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Fw: Re:  (no subject)
> To: hammstu at sbcglobal.net, "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 2:46 PM
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> I think it is wrong. I just don't think that it is in any way similar to
> burglary, extortion, muggery, barratry etc etc.
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> I have thought for a while that y'all are going to have to figure out
> another paradigm as to how you extract your money from the market.
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> You know, Mozart only got paid for the shows that he personally put on.
> When other people produced his stuff in other cities, he got bupkis.
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>> --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Stuart Hamm <hammstu at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> From: Stuart Hamm <hammstu at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) (no subject)
>> To: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 2:33 PM
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>> I'm not sure I ever had credibility...certainly  not on this
> forum...but
>>
>> The actors and producers and people who work on a TV show are payed up
>> front for their work...maybe some back end $ for DVD sales...but are not
>> payed  based on how many people actually watch the show!!
>> When someone buys a CD at a store or online a % of that sale goes to the
>> writer/musicians...that's the way we make money off the product. If
> it's
>> shared or downloaded illegaly I lose the opportunity to make $ off my
>> work.
>> Sure, if I download an episode of BSG Ron Moore may lose a few $...(but
>> I'll buy the box set anyway..) but the lion's share of his earning
> have
>> been payed already,,,regardless of whether 1 million or 25 million
>> people
>> watched that episode.
>>
>> No one's gonna back me?? Don't we all rush out and buy a first
> edition of
>> GW's new books instead of
>>  downloading an illegal copy???
>>
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>> --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) (no subject)
>> To: hammstu at sbcglobal.net, "The Urth Mailing List"
> <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 12:27 PM
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>> Stuart Hamm wrote:
>>> I must old...I can't understand how people don't see file
> sharing
>> as theft.
>>
>> I won't say
>>  it's not bad, but it's not the _same_ as theft, and
>> when people say it is they lose credibility.
>>
>>
>> Do you consider letting people watch your TV to be theft?
>>
>>
>> -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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