Comments on: Harvard Study: “Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society”

By: editorial « O Galã da Sarjeta

editorial « O Galã da Sarjeta — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:44:40 +0000

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By: D.AN

D.AN — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:46:45 +0000

“the way you understanding things”

should read

“the way that you understand things”

By: D.AN

D.AN — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:18:20 +0000

“I don’t want to argue with you”

Then don’t insist the things that you write to be factual.

“I want to discuss things and understand”

Discussion involves consideration or examination of something and you did nothing of the sort. Considering your reading comprehension, the way you understanding things is pitiful.

“You are kind of boring”

Talking to your reflection again?

“becuase all you do is attack”

Attack? No; making fun of you just seems too appropriate to do. I haven’t been taking you seriously enough to want to attack you. Perhaps your need to defend yourself is the root of that idea. Or is it the lack of respect from me that you feel attacked?

“but I’m optimistic enough to think I might be able to explain some things to you.”

And why do you suppose I would have an idiot to explain anything to me? I would say that you are stupid enough to think that, not optimistic enough.

“Such as: Those people are not experts. They are activists.”

Are you suggesting that people who study in business schools are activists now?

I thought you just wrote “I want to discuss things and understand” yet you are doing the opposite.

By: mal greenborg

mal greenborg — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:43:05 +0000

I don’t want to argue with you, I want to discuss things and understand. You are kind of boring, becuase all you do is attack, but I’m optimistic enough to think I might be able to explain some things to you.

Such as: Those people are not experts. They are activists.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:09:26 +0000

As well, malgre, if you are no expert, then spare the trouble of criticizing a study done by actual experts that work in a renowned university.

Besides, with that worthless trash of an insult of yours, not even a miracle would help you in an argument with me.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:02:05 +0000

Impressive, mal greenborg, you’ve finally succeeded in looking at your own reflection for once!

By: mal greenborg

mal greenborg — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:27:40 +0000

I don’t have to disprove a suppostion with no data or logoc to back it up. The ’study’ reads like old fascist propaganda – there is no causal link.

At first you were kind of interesting but now you are boring.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:30:03 +0000

As well, mal greenborg, this study focuses on copyright laws and statistics, in case you have not yet sensed that even after one week.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:26:20 +0000

If you’re going to introduce an new argument, do it right; otherwise you are way too late for that.

“True that the number of recordings out there have grown, but that has to do with cheap recording gear, not the internet.”

But not a single elaboration given after this topic sentence.

“… becuase there is none.”

Clearly this study reads “since the advent of file-sharing,” which is a time period. Also, the correlation poses probable causal link and you have not yet proved this probability to be zero.

“… can have his files downloaded from his site or from p2p … nothing to do with file sharing … ”

P2P is a superset of file sharing, for crying out loud. Therefore the rest of the paragraph is annulled.

“The fact that sharing does nothing for promotion … money is required for promotion, usually label money, … by the fact that in the last ten years not a single band has gotten big by adopting the free software philosophy of Stallman and the EFF.”

All of this is retardant and ludicrously ignorant electronic diarrhea.

Your stupid text wall has nothing to do with replying to DrewWilson’s post.

By: mal greenborg

mal greenborg — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:48:08 +0000

True that the number of recordings out there have grown, but that has to do with cheap recording gear, not the internet. Where the internet has helped is in distribution – an artist can have his files downloaded from his site or from p2p for free or for a pittance have them hosted for sale somewhere (free on amazon, cheap on itunes). This has nothing to do with file sharing – as sharing files doesn’t help in distribution anymore than getting a link to the artists web site does. And sharing does nothing for promotion, except through music blogs and they could just as easily link to a website as host the files themselves. The study says file sharing has increased and the number of albums out there have increased but shows absolutely no causal link, becuase there is none.

The fact that sharing does nothing for promotion and that money is required for promotion, usually label money, is underscored by the fact that in the last ten years not a single band has gotten big by adopting the free software philosophy of Stallman and the EFF. Giving away a track or a record as a loss leader has done some good for a few bands that have gotten big by other means, however.