Online "Piracy" as progressive taxation


	Online "Piracy" as progressive taxation

Spiritualmonkey

8-13-2009 10:29 AM

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Tim O'Reilly is the publisher of those computer-related books with the animals on them.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/016ecd7e-23c7-4a50-84e3-57beac304f09/0A693504-B5E1-4EC4-9AC3-C654452A94DB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html" href="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html" style="font-size: 11px;">tim.oreilly.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html"><P>
<A name="lesson1"><B>Lesson 1</B>: <I>Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and
creative artists than piracy.</I>
</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html">Many works linger in deserved obscurity, but so many more suffer
simply from the vast differential between supply and demand.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html"><P>
<A name="lesson2"><B>Lesson 2</B>:  <I>Piracy is progressive taxation</I>
</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html">For all of these creative artists, most laboring in obscurity,
being well-enough known to be pirated would be a crowning achievement.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html"><P>
<A name="lesson3"><B>Lesson 3</B>:  <I>Customers want to do the right thing, if they
can.</I>
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<A name="lesson4"><B>Lesson 4</B>:  <I>Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy</I>.
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<A name="lesson4">While few of the people putting books on public web servers seek to
profit from the activity, those who are putting up CDs for sale on
eBay containing PDF or HTML copies of dozens of books are in fact
practicing piracy--organized copying of content for resale.
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or film publishing.  They threaten existing publishers</I>.  </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html?page=2"><P>
<A name="lesson6"><B>Lesson 6</B>:  <I>"Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality
paid service</I>
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<A name="lesson7"><B>Lesson 7</B>:  <I>There's more than one way to do it.</I>
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