Re: DRM, Intel, Sony, virtualization and backdoors

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:50:57 +0200

Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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/.

Isn't the US winning on everything when competing with Mexico? A lot of
Mexicans immigrate to the US, even if the job they'll do there is cleaning
cars or serving burgers. Do you think that there's something that destroyed
the cleaning cars market in Mexico? Yes, it's there, it's called poverty. I
simply fail to see how a working IP laws im Mexico could offer Mexican
artists a similar benefit as going north, leaving the third world behind,
and entering the first.

There are other markets with non-working IP laws, the example I gave
(Maghreb) is just one. Think of mainland China. All these markets do work,
despite of the lack of a comparable first world IP law. They work
(following their own rules), because there is a benefit for the artists to
stay at home, and/or a sufficiently rigid immigration restriction policy on
the nearby first world countries.

Note also that the US media industry outcompetes even media industries with
comparable IP laws (such as the one in the EU). It's simply stronger. We
have more US music on the radio than local one. We have more US movies in
the cinemas as local ones - usually, there's maybe one local movie per year
that's competes successful with the two or three US blockbusters running at
the same time. If you are movie maker or actor in Germany, you emigrate to
the US if you can. A lot of them actually do.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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