danleephoto wrote:
> I don't think it's feasible to try and change a whole group's
> ingrained behaviour, that's why I think you need to have a better plan.
>
Much as you try to defend it, you miss two things.
Thing 1:
X costs Y.
Car costs money, for example. Don't have money? Want car? Don't get
car. Or steal car. (Note the theft in there).
Pictures... as in, the pattern of light reflected or emitted from a
surface to get into your brain... cost money. Don't have money? Want
pictures? Don't get pictures, or steal pictures. See the theft in
there again?
Why should other people have to pay for something if you can get it for
free? Why should you get it for free if other people have to pay for
it? Why should the artist create it if he wants something that he
defines in return (Money), and you are not giving him that?
Which brings up thing 2:
Jim's solution has been very simple, and very detrimental to everybody
who wants his art:
He's slowed down making it, put it on copy-resistant paper, and only
creates a trickle now. He doesn't try to change a whole group's
behavior, because he knows that they are too stupid, or bull-headed, or,
like you, both, to change. He just takes away what they want. If you
can't beat them, fuck them. They don't get anything if he creates it in
a protected format. They don't get anything if he doesn't create
anything at all. Since he DOES get something if he creates it in a
protected format, and they don't get anything unless they follow the
rules and pay him, he'll make it in a protected format. He just won't
make much, because in the real world (Not your little furry art theft
world), the art he makes gets fair compensation. He makes it, people
don't steal it, he makes money, everybody is happy.
So... Let's see...
He makes things. People pay him for it. He makes money. People are
happy because they get more things. Jim is happy because he makes a
living so he can make these things for them. Everybody wins.
He makes furry things. People steal it because they want it, but they
are cheap ass bastards who see no value in creation (They can't create a
damn thing themselves either). Jim doesn't make return on his
investment of time and effort, so stops making it. Thieves lose,
nothing to steal.
If people somebody searches for "Skunkworks", and finds NO copies of the
portfolio out to be stolen, but finds teaser images and smaller web
images, person has no choice but to buy it if they want it.
Person searches for it and finds some places to buy it, but also finds
lots of copies for free. Do you really think this world is not made up
of lots of cheap bastards like yourself and your defended group who will
just take the free copies and not give Jim anything in return? Sorry,
but your friends prove otherwise. Thieves. Straight and simple. When
you get something that is Not Yours, that has a defined price set to
have it become yours, and you do not pay that price for it, or
recompense the person or entity who created it, you are a thief.
Thief, Thief, Thief. Period, unquote, end of conversation. Nothing
will make you not a thief. No amount of justification will change the
fact that you are scum, and only your den of thieves friends actually
like you. Nothing can take that stigmata away from you. Maybe nobody
will know. Maybe you'll just fap to your collection of stolen artwork
like the little social degenerate you are, replacing a keyboard due to
cum short-circuits every week. But -YOU- are the one who has to live
with it. If you have any sense of morals, which obviously you don't
based on your arguments, you will be the one dealing with that burden.
And you better hope to anything you believe in that there is no higher
power or universal payback, because otherwise you're fucked in the worst
way possible.
Standard policy:
"I make something. It costs me to make it. You want it? You pay me
back for it."
The world of copyable items made this wholly impossible to enforce with
just "Taking possession away from the thief". A thief steals a car, you
take the car away from him, thief loses. Only one person can have the
car at a time. With images, they are copyable, so there is no way to
enforce it by that means. So Copyright was created as a way to
encourage people to create things and feel that they have SOME semblance
of safety in not having that thing they created stolen from them, eg,
somebody getting "It" (The image) and not paying them.
Copyright exists because some people are stupid, lazy, and cheap
bastards who want everything for free. They can't work up to stealing
REAL stuff (Because hey, people take that Serious...), so they just
steal... furry porn... Pitiful.
Received on Fri Oct 03 2008 - 04:48:38 CDT