Re: [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

Hey James! This is a more elaborate reply to your arguments. 1. "I simply object to Kinsella's denial that creative labor is worth anything." He does not say that it is not worth anything. He simply takes a property approach to IP. It is not about value. Intellectual property is a claim that there should be property rules in the sphere of ideas. Thus, to analyze this claim, we must analyze property theory. 2. "If I want to increase the value of the blank DVDs by printing onto them content created by someone else, that's *just fine* because I own the material goods. If I then sell these newly-valuable DVDs for higher than the cost of the blank ones, I am earning a profit. The work that I did to earn that profit is a tiny iota of the work that went into the content that I used, but I am making money off of it and I am not paying the people who did the hard work." Right. Thing is - value has nothing to do with property rights. Property rights appear as soon as there is rivalrousness. To supply an example. Let's say you took someone's piece of marble and created a statue out of it. Is it now your statue, because you've added "value" to it? Creation in itself does not give you any property rights. In fact, there is no creation, there is always only changing matter according to laws of physics. 3. Did you read the whole thing? I am asking, because Stephan goes through all that in great detail. L.V.