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Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson  ....Now that intellectual property looting is affecting areas beyond music, the laws in the U.S. can be expected to change dramatically because it no longer just affects the left wing wacko musicians many right wingers would just as soon see starve. |
a question please,
what sectors of production and commerce will be affected that aren't yet?
illegal copying of software is older than digital sharing of music..
the other axis I know is 3rd world copycat industry, including textiles, vs centralist control of agriculture and chemical production, by the likes of monsanto.
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when the product can be copied with almost zero cost (by the manufacturer themselves) then the cost of the initial invention, like lab research or studio time, per unit will break down to zero, or the raw internet traffic cost.
this sentence is just to show there is a physical limit in the buying force.
I am attacking the linear calculation here. it has been causing overproduction and deflation of distributed music, also because of a general false paradigm with immaterial goods, especially entertainment.
download sales 1000 units of a song = 1000 bucks
100M units should be 100M bucks ?
I don't think so.
we clearly have to respect the situation that every kid can have 20000 songs in her ipod. still there will be no USE for these songs. no one can listen more than 240 of 3-minute songs in a half day = 12 hours of sonic environment.
a reasonable paradigm of an economy can ONLY be about USE of a product, and benefit for the customer.
the benefit to the customer is the only justifyable reason to give money to the vendor or producer.
therefor we can never in a sane state charge the kid for 20000 songs because no use can take place for these immaterial collections that did cost zero (in above calculation that is based on linear pricing and infinite digital production)
I want to point out the contradiction.
solutions IMHO may walk into 2 directions.
a) logarithmic and deferred pricing models, e.g. 1 billion units for 1M bucks.
the price will break down within a year, to a tiny fraction of the initial. for reasons of stability, accounting is deferred, and the price will be lower than told in the first offer, but there is a layer of mitigating redstribution between the low-price and high-price units. the result will be activated buying force plus legit 20000 songs in the ipod, but most are a bit older.
b) micropayment for listening time only, no matter what is sitting on the harddisk or quantum bubble memory or whatever we will have.
shouldn't the song I listen to for 300 times make more buck than the other I am fed up with after 3 times?
hunting after what ever immaterial bits and bytes are flying around, is totally useless, and directed by a tragically false paradigm of control of owership.
only reasonable and successful use of any good, and the more if immaterial, can create sustainable buying force.