Re: DRM, Intel, Sony, virtualization and backdoors

From: Tony Nelson (*firstname*nlsnews_at_georgea*lastname*.com)
Date: 06/12/05 

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:38:17 GMT

In article <yf3hdg3wqla.fsf@base.gp.example.com>,
 pg_nh@0502.exp.sabi.UK (Peter Grandi) wrote:

 [Tony Nelson wrote:]
> > Consider Mexico, where the record industry has been demolished
> > by piracy.
>
> This statement implies the number one fallacy used by the vested
> interests of the current IP regime: ...

No, the statement is an existance proof that Piracy can harm an
industry. There used to be a record industry in Mexico.

> > It has, at least, resulted in many acts moving to the US where
> > they can make a living selling records.
>
> This statement contains another fallacy: that some people are
> owed the right to an easy comfortable living by «selling records»
> instead of having to debase themselves earning a regular living
> by performing their music, as (evidently stupider) musicians
> from time immemorial have done.

No, it means that Mexico is deprived of their own musicians, who have
moved away in order to make a living. They don't perform in Mexico;
they perform in the US. This harms the Mexicans who live in Mexico,
that is, most of them. By having successful IP laws, the US has
competitively acquired musicians from Mexico -- outcompeting Mexico --
/winning/.
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