First, I would like to get something off of my chest, if you had read my previous post, copyright or copy wrong you may find that I have a bitterness to the idea of copyrights. Of course, I did not fully explain myself; for one thing emotions start to fly off the handle. Almost as if I bring up a political debate or religious event. So, before I comment on what we have to write about I would like to offer a thought. I am hugely involved in econometrics, and economic thought, it is almost as if playing a sport or adimantley watching football. Go Dallas Cowboys!
I have been to a country with no copyright laws, Iraq. Yes, the country is in shambles, but not for the fact that copyright laws had such a profound effect. If someone would like to know please e--mail me and I will explain what happened when I was there. In this instance I would like to use Ceteris paribus, meaning all things being the same. Let's imagine America briefly not using copyright laws what would happen? Would it be an Oh My God,(OMG) run to the internet and download your brains out? Well, I hate to say this, but it happens now, I do not have a hard time finding something for free. So what would be different, in my opinion it would be product upgrade keys that would be available for purchase. This would ignite creativity and have a Darwinian effect on products. Meaning only the fittest would survive; therefore increasing the value of the product. I create a widget it is dispersed in the market a base value. sometimes the value initially is low, then again it could be high based on the demand. If demand continues to increase, the value will increase, this is where a key to and an a upgrade becomes available. My example is directly to worse to computer software. So I will give another example, a DVD, we pay somewhere in the range of $20. In Iraq it was was a dollar or two at the most, truly demonstrating that most people watch a movie once or twice once it is in their possession. As you can tell, once I had that experience I was not too keen on by movies in DVD format.
In conclusion, this may open up a whole ball of worms and that is fine with me because I have philosophies I now stand by. I have thought of many aspects around this topic and freely allow the distribution of my thoughts.
Wow, you are one of the most reflective bloggers I have ever had in class. Perhaps a graduate degree in philosophy is in your future. You are very passionate about copyright. If we allowed everyone to freely access things then when would someone get paid for their work? When would a musician get paid for their songs? Should they just write them for free for the love of writing and performing music? I don't think so. When would a photogropher get paid for their images? There are a lot of things to think about with copyright and no easy answers.
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