[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Michel Bauwens]

sorry for misreading you there!

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:42 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 18:28:48 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens (
> michelsub2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Michel,
> thanks for this:
>
> > It is indeed possible that it may have justicifications and positive
> effects in
> > some cases ...
>
> and for this:
>
> >     > Second whatever we may think of the difficulties of private and
> >     > corporate individuals to make money for their creations, to insist
> >     > that this is the only possible incentive to create is just
> factually
> >     > wrong,
> > .........
> > I may have reacted, and over-read, your sentence here: "all you get
> > is to remove an incentive to make all or almost all of that stuff
> > available for everybody."
>
> Yes, I do think you over-reacted here. I said "an", not "all",
> probably "one of the" would have been more correct language-wise, but
> certainly I didn't say or think "all the incentives".
>
> All I meant, and confirm, that this is what indeed happens in many
> **individual cases**. Of course, on a large scale there will always be
> some production. If you remove that incentive it is sure that:
>
> - some people will simply start doing something else
> - they won't have time, energy, interest left to keep publishing for free
>
> - in many "non-artistic" fields it is also sure that some of them will
>  be those who would have published excellent works available to
>  everybody otherwise.
>
> Marco
> --
> Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
> software is used *around* you:            http://digifreedom.net/node/84
>
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