BAJ wrote:
>>
>> > The point is that not only MP3's but also knowledge and data in
>> > general is now basically free to store and transmit. Compared to just
>> > a year or so ago, the site really doesn't cost me very much.
>>
>> I am starting to worry seriously about you. What do you mean by 'The point
>> is that not only MP3's but also knowledge and data in general is now
>> basically free to store and transmit'. I hope that you mean public domain
>> knowledge, yes ? I'd like you to answer this.
>
>Peter,
>
>James wasn't referring to the copyright status of the knowledge, but the
>physical transmission/storage cost of information. For example 10 years
>ago RAM ran about $1200 for 32 MB, about $38/MB. Now RAM runs about $40 for
>120MB, about $0.32 a MB. Essentially a two order of magnitude shift.
>

I think James is the one who is mixing things up. Yes, storage is
cheap, technology is cheap, and it's always nice to have your
grandmother's recipes saved for posterity.

But what James is not adequately distinquishing in his arguments is
the difference between intellectual property freely given into the
public domain by the author [ie, his communist/utopian dream], and
intellectual property that is privately-owned and/or commercially-
licensed, and disseminated to the public by those who have not
the legal right to do so.

This entire discussion is moot, when someone is able to distinquish
between the two.
============

.........>
>The one thing I still haven't figured out is how to limit distribution only
>to those who pay, and do it in such a way that paying customers can playback
>their music in all the venues they need (home, vehicle, portable).
>
>That's the hard part.
>

Until that time comes, we can live within the law or not.

Also, even when Napsters problem is solved, I don't think that is
going to solve the issue that James rasied with this thread
- intellectual property that is not music.

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