[ExI] to my fellow renaissance life forms

[Adrian Tymes]

The authors usually get such a tiny cut, sometimes literally nothing, that
there's not much baby to throw out.

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 6:59 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Possibly they rationalized that most of the money does not go to the
> artists anyway, and that by chipping away at entrenched publishers they were
> hastening the day when artists get a better deal.
> *\\*  Anton Sherwood
> *This, in an odd way, reminds me of throwing the baby out with the bath
> water.  Let's get rid of the bad guys, but hurt the good guys at the same
> time.   bill w*
>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 7:57 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2021-8-15 14:25, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
>> > Honest as the day is long:  me.  Mr. Morality.  Now when all this
>> > computer stuff really got going, and you could download music and not
>> > pay for it, it ruffled my feathers:  the musicians were being cheated.
>> > This was wrong (and is still wrong).  I discussed this with some of my
>> > classes, and they could seem to find no moral problem here:  if they
>> > could do it, they did it - a full apple tree with no farmer around -
>> > whatta ya expect?  I am still disappointed in those students robbing
>> the
>> > people who were giving them so much pleasure.  It did teach me more
>> than
>> > I knew at the time about people.  bill w
>>
>> Possibly they rationalized that most of the money does not go to the
>> artists anyway, and that by chipping away at entrenched publishers they
>> were hastening the day when artists get a better deal.
>>
>> --
>> *\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org
>>
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