[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

[drew Roberts]

On Thursday 15 July 2010 14:50:20 you wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
> > Either you share freely and people contribute to you willingly as a
> > result. This will let people be Free. Or you use force on them to *make*
> > them contribute to you against their will. Personally or via the state.
> > People no longer have their Freedom in this case.
>
> surely its not that dichotomous. one middle ground:
>
> * don't force support against anyone's will
> * use extreme force against anyone who redistributes (i.e. the creator
>      is the only legal distributor)

That's the problem right there. You can't even prove damages and yet you 
think "extreme force" will be necessary to get people to comply. It is time 
to give it up and find a new revenue model. Either that or buy into the fact 
that the means of production and distribution are now cheap enough and the 
skills spread out enough among the population that the world's music needs 
can be met by amateurs.

Seriously, shall we have the death penalty for distributors? What about for 
performers? What about for unintentional performers?

If not the death penalty, what about 4 or 5 years in jail?

(In case yo think these last questions are in jest, they are not, I would 
appreciate a serious answer.)

all the best,

drew