Re: [LAD] RAUL?

Hey David! Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. I think you have raised interesting points. I would begin by asking you a question though. "However, if just any business was legally allowed take anyone's "intellectual property" and make money off of it, paying no royalties or anything, that would be a problem." Why would that be a problem? "Unfortunately, in the case of music, video games and various other things, the interesting part of making a polished, thoroughly enjoyable and/or useful product is generally only some 10% of the work. The rest is just hard, boring, frustrating work that will rarely ever get done without some other motivation than the work itself." This is a very fair concern. I would say that I would not be interested in the question of free software if the only proprietary thing in the would would be games. For music and games I do have an answer for you. And this answer comes from seeing the great advancements of the computer technology. Nowadays making music and even movies is much-much easier. In Russia one of the political opposition people has announced a song contest, aimed at the government. I am listening to what people have done and am amazed - all of it is really good, on par with professional work, and most contestants are amateurs who do it in their free time. Looks like this is not really a problem. Games seem to survive today in spite of filesharing though. Do you think it comes from the fact that most are multiplayer? -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/