In article <uv0rhv8mqqb2nnbsb21agjbgtu6ejodk7h@4ax.com>,
The Reverend Lincoln Lincoln <dogwander@frostwarning.com> wrote:
> flip come on down:
>
> >That's the way every market works.
> >
> >The vendor sets a price. If you don't like it, you can't have the
> >product - you have to do without or buy something different.
> >
> >Why should music be any different?
>
> Because technology is changing the face of modern capitalism? Because of the
> tenuous as best historical relationship between art and commerce? Because we
> fuckin' _can_?
What a stupid argument.
So murder, rape, car theft, and so on should be OK _because we can_?
>
> >> Once
> >> again you are making my case that there is not a FREE MARKET solution
> >> being
> >> offered. Somehow the rest of the world has had to operate on less of a
> >> profit
> >
> >Of course it's a free market. They set the price, you can choose whether
> >or not to buy.
>
> If it's a free market, why do you keep insisting I _pay_?
>
I don't insist that you pay.
If the owner of the property wants to give it to you at no charge,
that's fine.
OTOH, if the owner of the property wants to charge you for it and you
don't want to pay, then stealing it is wrong.
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