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Unread 22-08-2006, 07:50
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Re: RIAA or no RIAA?

Craig and Chris,
Interesting.... If you were to set pen to paper and produced a spectacular sketch of the Lower Falls at Yellowstone N.P. and then you turned around and gave it away to the masses you would feel really great that the world was enjoying and benefiting from your work. What if the first person to accept the drawing instead chose to print off copies and sell them and it turned into a marketing success story where that person was raking money by the bushel. What would your reaction be? Wouldn't your attitude change? Wouldn't you see that you could benefit from your gift even in a small way but that someone else was not only reaping financial rewards but was undermining your original intentions? Would you continue to draw and give away?
Using the horse vs. car analogy...This isn't new tech improving the way things are done. In your analogy, this would be the masses coming in and taking your horses each night to pull wagons for them for free. You don't know who "they" are but your business is being hurt because your customer base is turning to the other people who are providing horses at night. You see your business dwindle and your horses tire and you start to talk to other teamsters who are having the same problem. You all decide you need to find these perpetrators and do something to prevent them from taking the horses. You realize that it needs someone to be watching all the horses every night and you all decide you can't watch horses and sleep. So you decide to form a group, an association, where everyone will pay a little into a common fund. Then the fund will pay someone to watch out each night and find a way to prevent the taking of horses each night.
To put this another way that may make more sense...You approach another team, Wildstang for instance. You see that they have a new wheel design that is better than omni wheels. Everyone is crazy for the new wheels. Wildstang gives you one to hold and even to borrow to show your team and other friends. You have a machine that can copy any mechanical part in a few seconds. You take the wheel and copy it and start selling it as an Team XYZ new and improved wheel. Then you go over to the Thunder Chickens and get them to give you one of their new transmissions to see and understand. You take that tranny and copy it and sell it and/or give to friends. Then over to the Martians for an aiming mechanism, to SigmaCats for a base, and Beachbots for ball accumulator, etc. Is any of this right? Did you not steal the wheel from Wildstang and the tranny and all the other parts and profit from them in some way? Even if you just started handing them out for free to just your friends, did someone do something wrong? Was someone hurt by your actions? Did you violate GP? Think about your answer, remember GP.
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