[ EEPI-Discuss ] Don't bring political partisanship into this discussion. What's right for the Dems is right for the GOP.

[David Wade <djw@marystruck.com>]

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>From: Dan Krimm <djkrimbo@earthlink.net>
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>The problem with your reasoning here is that no one model is appropriate
>and desirable.  If you take away the (*limited*) property rights granted
>under the authority of the Constitution (in the US), you necessarily end up
>with no market for IP.
>
>While it is true that these rights have been abused, it is not in society's
>interest to obliterate those rights.  <snip>  To paint all
>compromises as bad is simplistic and short-sighted IMHO.  Sometimes the
>best solutions are those that combine the best elements of the purist ideas
>while ameliorating the worst elements of those purist ideas -- that is, the
>best solutions sometimes are those that could not have been imagined by
>either side alone, but only in collaboration.
>
>Dogmatic ideology scares me.  That is what is threatening the roots of the
>US today.

Mr. Krimm spent entirely too many words on "beating my dog", and not enough 
on explaining why "now" we have to support performance artists when in the 
past, the portrait artists lost their livelihood to the Photographer.  He 
has not spent one word on proving that we don't have that same problem 
today.  We do not subsidize the Degas among us, or even the Renoir.  But he 
does tell us that he feels that the government is being threatened today, 
and we must assume that he thought that the last 40 years of Democratic 
reign were better.  None of that has anything to do with whether we must 
subsidize the dying art of musicians getting together in a studio with a 
"Notorious Lead Vocalist" and making a record.

Within a few years we will be able to record live performances 
holographically, and play them back as though the artists were in the 
center of the room.  Why should we keep that technology from being born 
because we must tax the living s&*( out of the consumer with every song he 
hears?  All of the artists I've ever met perform because they like doing 
that.  They get no feedback from my listening to their record.  But the 
Internet has been giving them feedback from all over the world...  From 
people who they could never have performed before.  Perhaps the 
Internetizens can charge the artists for that? 

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