Posted by
glen ropella on
Apr 19, 2013; 3:40pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/digital-ethics-tp7582823p7582843.html
Well, my point wasn't really related to the price. It's more about
cost:benefit, or perhaps low hanging fruit. The cops tell us to lock
our doors, not because locks keep out serious criminals, but because it
puts a tiny hurdle in front of the lazy opportunist criminals.
Seeing the bootlegs so high up in the page rank is what makes it
interesting, to me. It's so _easy_ to steal. That's what brings the
subject so much closer to conversations about "the commons" or the
public good.
At what point does ubiquity _force_ membership in the commons?
Arlo Barnes wrote at 04/18/2013 12:19 PM:
> But it sounds like it is out of your price range, at least for now. The
> author (nor the
> publisher<
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder-why-theres-no-tipjar.html>)
> gets no money from you checking the book out of the library, so what are
> they losing from you pirating the book? Not that I am suggesting that is
> what you *should* do - it is an individual decision, after all - but I
> always find it interesting what people consider their 'boundary' and why.
--
=><= glen e. p. ropella
Now may I present to you the basilisk?
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