>From: "Mason Mullins" <mason_mullins@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Music Download Services
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 22:07:35 +0000
>
>So artists who create works shouldn't be paid for them? When an author
>writes a book people should be allowed to copy and distribute it without
>that author getting paid?
>
>I don't think so. The book or music is that artist's product and they
>should be paid for it unless that artist chooses to distribute that work
>for free.
>
>Mason
Re-read what I wrote. I said nothing of the sort that people should not be
paid for labor. However, people should be paid for the services they perform
or the goods that they sell. People should not receive payments each time
someone comes in contact with something that is an approximation of what
said laboror produced at some point in the past. No one works in a vacuum.
Anything that has ever been produced has come to fruition only because the
producer has been exposed to the ideas and knowledge that mankind as a whole
has accumulated over centuries. "Standing on the shoulders of giants" and
all of that jazz...
Jonathon
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