[IP] more on Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers' Activities
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From: jean_camp <jean_camp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 31, 2005 10:36:08 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing
Consumers' Activities
That is the essential problem - without some requirement for
reasonable and mandatory licensing there is no freedom of choice. The
Beasty Boys is not a substitute for Bach which is not a substitute
for the Beatles. It is the absence of choice and the use of limited
monopoly powers to prevent choice and competition that is the
problem. Of course, the irony is that those limited monopoly powers
are intended to create more choice.
I am all for a market. I would like a competitive one, not a
centrally planned market run by monopolists. Those centrally planned
markets do seem to be a bit less optimal, and tend to force
participants into market subversion.
thanks,
Jean
On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:50 PM, David Farber wrote:
There are legal competitors out there, guys. Use your freedom of
choice.
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