Ignorance would be calling it stealing if someone took a picture of a painting you made and put it on their own wall, or memorized your poem and recited it in public.

Your work cannot be stolen, unless it is of such “common nature” that no-one would know you made it if your name wasn’t at the “work of art” itself.

Real expressions are made to influence the world, and the best way of reaching an audience is not to hunt down those who did not pay you in cash for the experience.

I’m curious, how did you receive “personal impact” from someone stealing your work?

Sorry for raging, but found this page when searching for something else, and got pissed off, even if it’s and old discussion.

And as always, the RIAA, like any other cartel, is queer.

I think that this is about who we are… We’ve been hearing about three different groups “pirates”, “customers” and “artists” in phrases like “Because unlawful customers buy from pirates, the artists holding CR to those materials receive squat”

What I think this represent is that most of us fall into the three categories at the same time. We ARE pirates, we ARE customers and we ARE artists.

Think about it, have you ever downloaded an MP3 or movie with CR content?
Have you ever bought a CD or DVD thus paying to the rightfull artist?
Have you ever produced something that was evenentually copied/pirated?

I know I fall into the three… if you’ve only done two of the past, then you are in the middle brownish area, if you only done one, then you are a pure Blue, Red or Green, and in my opinion a FREAK OF NATURE!

Please forgive my spelling, English is not my mother tongue.

Have a good one,

mike.

In essence the black represents that all of us are both the enemy and the consumer…

Someone doesn’t understand ballentine diagrams…

The black is the shared variance between the three groups.

-kakou

Remember kids, capitalization is the difference between, “I helped my uncle Jack off a horse,” and, “I helped my uncle jack off a horse.”

As for your spelling prowess? From Hamel: “Hoist with his owne petar”

Run along now while the adults talk.

“I’d have to agree that this graphic is quite insightful.”

Who the fuck in the 21st century says shit like that. Who are you trying to impress. I mean look at you Name. WiseWeasel. I wonder are you insecure about you inteligence. Even with your explanation you still haven’t explained what everyone wants to know. All you had to say was everyone is in it because of money. Customer: They spend on buying the Product (music, Movies). Artist: They want to make money from the Product they produce. Pirates: they want to save or make money from the Product. Wasn’t that so easy you sudo-Inteligent Cock Sucker!

1. pirates (blue) represent a small percentage of that total by selling or providing content they do not own,

2. artists (green) represent another (smaller yet?) percentage, providing content they *do* own, and

3. whatever is meant by ‘customers’ (red) represent another percentage (although I can’t quite decipher what is meant by a ‘customer’ in this context. What content is being provided by customers, unless this diagram alludes to, say, reviews, critiques, and/or personal web content).

All other content is provided by commercial providers (black). Consequently, the vast majority of content on the net is provided or made available by commercial entities for purely commercial reasons, and is bought and paid for by content users.

The minimalist commentary is that commercial providers are generally working very hard to create overpriced content cartels for the purposes of price-fixing, much like the middle east oil cartels, the tax cartels (read: local, state and fed governments), and various other cartels.

*sigh*

It’s *so* easy to identify who’ll be up against the wall when the revolution comes…

…and me a l’il ol’ conservative…