Dave, The fact you deliberately linked to the print version of Vanity Fair - thus removing the chance of the publishers to earn money from your visit from advertising, and/or effectively market the other content on their website, is very telling.
I am deeply sorry that you don't want people to earn money from creative work; and disappointed that you object to the idea that content-creators need to control the distribution of their content. You've made your point very clearly on this list a number of times. It's now turning from charmingly naive discussion to something rather more irritating. Perhaps, for the sake of all our sanity, I could leave it with this real-world observation, that I hope even you agree with. - Some content-creators will want to have 'Content Restriction And Protection' on their content. - Some content-creators will choose not to have 'crap' in their content. - It's the content-creators choice to have crap in their content or not. - Some consumers won't want content with crap in it. - But some consumers won't care whether the content has crap in it or not. - Ultimately, the consumer will choose whether they want crap or no crap. - Content-creators may gain more benefit from controlling the use of their crappy content. - But content-creators may gain more benefit from leaving the crap out of their content. - The gamble for the content-creator is whether to put the crap in or leave the crap out. - Content-creators need to make the right individual choice. - Consumers need to make the right individual choice. - We both need to understand and respect each other's right to choose. -- http://james.cridland.net/
