<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> </span></span></span></font><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> <font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><font color="#ff0000">-</font><font color="#7f003f">\\</font>~<font color="#0000ff">S</font>~</font><font color="#7f003f">//</font><font color="#ff0000">-</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new
roman;">Mobile</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;"> (415) 786-3624</span><br><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> Skype </span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);">stuart.hamm<br>myspace.com/stuhamm<br></span></span></span></font><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);"> stuarthamm.net</span></span></span></font><br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 5/20/09, Stuart Hamm <i><hammstu@sbcglobal.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Stuart Hamm <hammstu@sbcglobal.net><br>Subject: Re: (urth) (no subject)<br>To: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson@io.com><br>Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 2:33 PM<br><br><div id="yiv962027645"><table border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">I'm not sure I ever had credibility...certainly not on this forum...but<br><br>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!!<br>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.<br>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.<br><br>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???<br><br><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> </span></span></span></font><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> <font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><font color="#ff0000">-</font><font color="#7f003f">\\</font>~<font color="#0000ff">S</font>~</font><font color="#7f003f">//</font><font color="#ff0000">-</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Mobile</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new
roman;"> (415) 786-3624</span><br><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> Skype </span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);">stuart.hamm<br>myspace.com/stuhamm<br></span></span></span></font><font size="+0"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);"> stuarthamm.net</span></span></span></font><br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 5/20/09, Jeff Wilson <i><jwilson@io.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson@io.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) (no subject)<br>To: hammstu@sbcglobal.net, "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 12:27 PM<br><br><pre>Stuart Hamm wrote:<br>> I must old...I can't understand how people don't see file sharing<br>as theft.<br><br>I won't
say<br> it's not bad, but it's not the _same_ as theft, and<br>when people say it is they lose credibility.<br><br><br>Do you consider letting people watch your TV to be theft?<br><br><br>-- Jeff Wilson - jwilson@io.com<br>< http://www.io.com/~jwilson ><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>