At 11:43 AM 12/5/2003 -0600, Herbert Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Matanya Ophee wrote: > > Quite the contrary. Sky writing, ..., have a very secure business model > > where the > >I simply meant (with some poetic license required, perhaps) that you can't >sell tickets to a sky-writing show. They buy the tickets to the football game, placing thousands of potential buyers in one location, which gives advertisers the venue to sell their product. Sky writers, like banner draggers, have a secure income form that, weather permitting of course. > > ... the street beggars in the swampy slums of Bangladesh are not part of > > this new fangled accessibility to music, yet they constitute a > > considerable portion of this thing you call "mankind". > >Anyone who reads National Geographic knows that very few people in the >world are unaffected by modern electronic entertainment. Yes of course. They all own computers and CD burners. >If file swapping kills Columbia Records, RIAA, and MGM Studios, I think >that mankind as a whole will indeed benefit, including the half-starved >rat-hunters, whether or not they are part of the kill mechanism. Be careful what you wish for. You may get it. > > > What we are really talking about is the replacement of commerciality with > >You're twisting my subject, and then implying that I was confused about >what the subject was. Not at all. we are talking about the same thing. Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 Phone: 614-846-9517 Fax: 614-846-9794 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orphee.com
