17 Jan
2003
17 Jan
'03
6:27 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Dan Wright once
stated:
copy = 1
Hey, let's get Michael Nadeau to help us test the Captain's theory.
With his permission, we'll scan his entire Collectibel Microcomputers
book into a pdf file and post it all over the internet. Michael, you
don't need to worry about this because your sales are going to skyrocket
just as soon as the book is made available to everyone for free!!!
WRONG! If it has value to you, then pay for it.
The problem is that the "theft" argument assumes that EVERY lost sale. This argument is total bullshit.
Most people who copy
music/movies/whatever wouldn't have bought it if they couldn't copy
it, so no (or at best, very few -- FAR fewer then the
number of copies
that are made) actual SALES are lost. (If you
don't
believe me, there
has been a lot of statistical research done that
shows
this; about the
only contradiction comes from the RIAA's
highly dubious
closed-books
"research". Sorry I don't have any
sources at hand, but
it's easy to find them on the WWW.)