User: jasek

Re:New Era?

On: Copyright Issues in the Mainstream

Yes, but that's a pretty significant distinction. When people voluntarily spend their money, you can discern what's important to them. When people are forced to spend their money, the enforcer of the spending is responsible for determining what's important to the public.

You didn't read his post very closely. He stated that the usage of each creative "product" is tracked and that information is used to determine how much and if profit is made on it. The central authority has no control on what is produced it's only responsibility is to handle the administrative task of actually collecting the data and distributing the funds.

But that's not all. The consumer of {movies,music,software} will perceive it as free. As a consequence they'll consume more of it than they would if they had to pay for it. This will lead to escalating costs for everyone.

This would be bad if we were talking about SUV's where the price per mile is large, but were talking about music. The price of consumption is virtualy zero. The significant cost is the initial development cost, which is not dependant on the number or frequency of users. To make this point even less valid you could simply charge the consumer the cost of bandwidth or the cost of printing and shipping the DVD at the time of purchase as well (and allow distribution to be a comercial venture on the open market to keep these costs down).