From: spike66 (spike66@ATTBI.com)
Date: Sat Mar 30 2002 - 00:13:40 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> spike66 wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 23:45, Hal Finney wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...In a nutshell,
>>>> we are not going to have much new music and movies, if no one has to
>>>> pay for them.
>>>>
>
> The above assumes that information is a type of "goods". But
> information and software are quite different from many things we think
> of as "goods". In particular they increase in useable value the more
> they are shared....
This is further complicated by the fact that most of a magazine's income
is from
the sale of ads. The whole situation is highly paradoxical. I pass on
a magazine
to Samantha, the publisher makes nothing off of the deal but the
advertizers get
more eyes on their ads, presumably resulting in more sales, and so they
pour
more money back into the magazine. Then she scans the article and
emails it to
her friends who do not see the ads. {8-]
I dont have the answers to intellectual property paradoxes. spike
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