On 5/11/2009 7:08 PM, Tim Cook wrote:
> Except one major perk: being paid for that copy. Hypothetically, person
> A gets paid for their time doing some menial labour that doesn't create
> anything (say, being a waiter), then gives some of their money for a
> copy of a CD to person B, whose only activity is creating CDs. When
> person A makes a copy of the CD without paying for it, person B is
> deprived of that money. Of course, it's entirely an artificial system
> which revolves around people being given money for doing things which
> are completely unnecessary to be done by a person so they can support
> the people who do things which can only be done by a person. There are
> many jobs out there which could well be automated, but it would result
> in billions of people with no job, which is anathema to the status quo.

I never said that it was right, or that there weren't economic 
consequences.  However, I'm having a harder and harder time seeing it as 
"theft."

If anything, we need a new term for it, as "unauthorized copying" is too 
unwieldy, and "theft" too inaccurate.

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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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