Of course it is about laissez-faire economics: business is, as business always has been.
<< But if he somehow managed to find an investor to stump up the money for just such a boat, with the idea that he would make a profit by selling jaunts on the ship, would you and your mates refuse to pay for a pleasure ride but steal the ship during the night and offer free rides to everyone in your town so that he had no way of making back his money?>> I am not advocating using things for nothing. I'm saying DRM and copyright protection are meaningless, expensive, wasteful, fanciful, and unintelligent ways of trying to enforce payment/control usage. <<Nobody's asking you to pay for music or films you don't watch or listen to.>> Which, again, is exactly the point I'm making. People here are saying there has to be a model to protect producers so they can afford to make what they want to make. My point is that people will pay for things if the producers produce worthwhile and desirable products. Though, as an aside, to be true to the truth, the licence fee does ask people in the UK to pay for content they don't watch or listen to. But that's another point entirely. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Deirdre Harvey Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:08 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM? King Canute was just showing his men that even though he was the king, he couldn't hold back the see. poor Canute, so misunderstood. > <<So, how do you propose to fund a multi-million pound film > in a different business model?>> > > I don't propose funding a multi-million pound film, so it is > not my concern. OK, so this isn't about ethics then, it's about dogmatic laissez-faire economics with a sprinling of darwinian pseudoscience sprinkled on top? > If it can be made, it can be made. If it can't be made, it > can't be made. If people don't want to pay for films, then > don't make them. My neighbour wishes they still made wooden > boats like the Mary Rose, but I and my mates are not going to > stump up some millions to satisfy his (and some other > people's) desires. But if he somehow managed to find an investor to stump up the money for just such a boat, with the idea that he would make a profit by selling jaunts on the ship, would you and your mates refuse to pay for a pleasure ride but steal the ship during the night and offer free rides to everyone in your town so that he had no way of making back his money? Nobody's asking you to pay for music or films you don't watch or listen to. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
