Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ...
by Tycho on Saturday December 03, 2011 @09:29AM
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Whatever. The point is that while content producers would not sell 100% of the stuff that gets pirated, nor would they have sold 0%.
Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ...
by JoshTriplett on Saturday December 03, 2011 @09:55AM
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You seem to have entirely ignored my point and just repeated yours. Your claim probably holds true, and I didn't dispute it, but that doesn't make it relevant.
Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ...
by Tycho on Saturday December 03, 2011 @10:14AM
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If you weren't disputing it, why did you respond? I was replying to someone else entirely, specifically the point that pirated copies made doesn't equate to number of copies that hypothetically would have been bought instead.
"potential earnings" does not mean "value". You have no fundamental right to get paid; you need to convince people to pay you. If you don't like it, don't provide your work in the first place.
Copyright deprives people of a non-zero percentage of the value of a work in the public domain; you claim people don't have the right to that value in the first place. My ability to resell a used lamp deprives the lamp maker of the value they'd get by selling a new one; they still have no right to prevent me from doing so.