I think you are completely wrong; you are just taking this side because you are one of the small percentage of the population that are informed.
Take food for example. Should we have regulations on ingredients, or should we have the FDA (or insert appropriate national regulatory agency) regulate it so that we don't need a Ph.D. in Biochemistry to shop safely at the supermarket.
People should not be punished for not knowing about what is now still a specialty area.
Although DVD sales may hurt the box office, this cannot single-handedly put Hollywood out of business. If more people are buying DVD's, then that signals an increase in demand for DVD's and thus the equilibrium price will go up, meaning more money for Hollywood from DVD sales. And since Hollywood can put a lowerbound on both DVD prices and movie ticket prices, and they can use tools such as delaying the release of DVD's, they can still make a considerable amount of money.
'Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?'
So shouldn't it only bother the artists if we try to pass off their music as our own? If I did well on a paper I would love for people to read it.
Obviously you don't go to Cornell. It is inconceivable that they could possibly find another way to get money from students. They milk us for every penny we're worth.
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I think you are completely wrong; you are just taking this side because you are one of the small percentage of the population that are informed.
Take food for example. Should we have regulations on ingredients, or should we have the FDA (or insert appropriate national regulatory agency) regulate it so that we don't need a Ph.D. in Biochemistry to shop safely at the supermarket.
People should not be punished for not knowing about what is now still a specialty area.
Although DVD sales may hurt the box office, this cannot single-handedly put Hollywood out of business. If more people are buying DVD's, then that signals an increase in demand for DVD's and thus the equilibrium price will go up, meaning more money for Hollywood from DVD sales. And since Hollywood can put a lowerbound on both DVD prices and movie ticket prices, and they can use tools such as delaying the release of DVD's, they can still make a considerable amount of money.
'Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?' So shouldn't it only bother the artists if we try to pass off their music as our own? If I did well on a paper I would love for people to read it.
indiana jones and the senior citizen hero. Oh wait, that's the same person....
Obviously you don't go to Cornell. It is inconceivable that they could possibly find another way to get money from students. They milk us for every penny we're worth.