On Sep 6, 11:14Â pm, "John Thingstad" wrote:
> PÃ¥ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:07:07 +0200, skrev Raffael Cavallaro Â
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>>> On 2008-09-06 10:36:58 -0400, "John Thingstad" said:
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>>> These people become billionares from copying things. Most of the Â
>>> artist's  don't.
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>> Most knowledge workers of any kind don't become billionaires. This is no Â
>> reason to steal knowledge workers' work product.
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>>> No other industry execept entertaiment and programs have these profit Â
>>> margins.
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>> Profit margins are high in industries which are not commoditized. This Â
>> is no reason to steal knowledge workers' work product.
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>>> You have thousand that barely get by but a popular few make millions.
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>> This is no reason to steal knowledge workers' work product.
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>>> Seems to me sellers of a popular ice cream experience nothing like this.
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>> Ben and Jerry of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream are both billionaires.
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>>> Most of the income goes into manefacture.
>>> But since copying cost next to nothing sucess can lead to ridicolus Â
>>> earnings.
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>> Again, just because *some* knowledge workers have "ridiculous earnings" Â
>> is no reason to steal knowledge workers' work product.
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>>> The people who speculate on the 'winners' just go along for the ride.
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>> Apple is providing a useful service to both cosumers and artists/labels, Â
>> namely, making available, legal and authorized copies of these artists' Â
>> works in a convenient form. Apple can make money by doing this only Â
>> because legal download options are not yet a commodity item (thanks to Â
>> the record labels holding out against legal downloads for years). Once Â
>> there are a number of players in this market it will become less Â
>> profitable. Mind you, Apple makes more money from the iPods sold than Â
>> from the iTunes store purchases anyway.
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> Who said anything about stealing?
> I was thinking more along the line of Ritchard Stallmans GNU incentive.
> To provide a more relaistic pricing of services.
There's nobody who could decide the pricing of something except the
market, even the goverment can't do that. Remeber what happened in
former socialist countries, the pair of quality shoes costs $1 but
they are nowhere to find. If you want those shoes you have to offer
something else to buy them.
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