[LINK] Theft, copyright, larceny...

[Janet Hawtin]

On 6/27/07, Stilgherrian <stil at stilgherrian.com> wrote:

> In another email this afternoon, Craig Sanders supposes that the opportunity
> is still there, because having "trialled" the music on the CD he obtained
> via Bill, Fred can still buy the CD from Joe. However in the real world this
> falls apart -- because in some / many / most / nearly all cases Fred (unless
> he's a shareware geek, hardly a representative sample of humanity) will
> think "I have the music, why do I need to pay money *now*?"

It is not a representative sample of people who currently buy because
they live in a society which promotes restriction as a model. It is
usual for free culture folks like myself because when I buy a free
culture item I am getting the book and the right to participate. It is
just that we have not marketed that kind of thinking widely. People
buy fair trade. People buy Australian made. It is just early days for
people buying Free Culture.