[ExI] to my fellow renaissance life forms

[William Flynn Wallace]

SR Ballard via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
I just don’t understand how pirating a CD and listening to it at the
library are any functionally different. The library paid for it.  When a
radio station plays a song they have to send money to ASCAP (I think -
something like that)   bill w

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 8:22 PM

>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Aug 15, 2021, at 5:29 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> 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
>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 3:47 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
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>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 3:51 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
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>>> Things seem to be getting worse instead of better. Farmers can't fix
>>> their own broken tractors, musicians are afraid to make music for fear of
>>> being sued, you can end up in jail for taking apart your games console..
>>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, there are legislative efforts to fix the first of
>> those (look up "right to repair"), and the last is apparently no longer a
>> thing if it ever was.  As to musicians - only very certain specifics of
>> music; bands are making music every day all across the USA with no fear of
>> the courtroom.
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