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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
I have no idea who Paul Coelho is, but if he or any author, musician, band, movie producer, porn chick or any other person who spent time and money creating art of some kind wants to give their content away for free or try alternative distrbution methods to gain attention, traffic and monetize it with ads, straight sales or whatever, that is their prerogative. The problem arises when people decide for themselves that they should be able to help themselves to the media that others created without compensating them.
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Originally Posted by xenigo
Yes yes yes. Why is it that people just can't seem to wrap their tiny minds around this seemingly simple concept?  |
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Originally Posted by epitome
Thank you gideongallery for pointing out that content owners can do whatever they want... Sell it or give it away. That's how it should be, the choice of the owner, not the person that wants to consume it.
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Care to name one other industry in the world that "needs" to control how people use the content they paid for.
No one would accept the bullshit argument that you need to get GM permission /pay them fees to use the car they made to drive your friends around (sharing your car with them).
Your control over your "content" may be greater than any other industry but it was never intended to be absolute, fair use is a legitimate limit you authorized when you claimed your monopoly power.