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So let them walk away
---And that way provides a profit incentive and without it there is absolutely no reason on this earth to do it---

Again, you are assuming that there's some inherent right for people to profit off of using the public's airwaves. There isn't. Use of the airwaves should be set up entirely in favor of the society that owns them. If, at that point, you can find a way to profit from using them, fine, go right ahead. If not, we'll live without you. It shouldn't be up to the public to bend over backward to, as you put it, "provide a profit incentive." All the public should be worried about is their own usage, and the creation of and preservation of a cultural heritage (which the broadcast flag will help destroy).

Companies need to learn to live in the real world, and not beg for charity from their customers or the government. The technology for copying and sharing exists, it will never go away, nor will piracy. Learn to profit despite it, or better yet, learn to profit from it, or go the way of the dinosaur.

How come you hate it when Real and Sun ask the government to step in on their behalf and give them MS' IP, yet you love it when NBC and Warner Bros. ask the government to step in on their behalf and give them the public's cultural heritage?
Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 06/28/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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The US government  mobrien_12@... | 06/27/06
What is Ted Stevens' motivation?  tic swayback | 06/27/06
Of course they support the broadcast flag  Anthony S. | 06/27/06
Why broadcast must have this.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/27/06
content will be pirated regardless  cjules13 | 06/28/06
If so, then tougher laws and more restrictions  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
And people still speed  tic swayback | 06/28/06
Ah, but it's kept to a minimum.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
A minimum?  tic swayback | 06/28/06
You seem very confused  tic swayback | 06/28/06
No one suggeted any such thing and you know it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
So let them walk away  tic swayback | 06/28/06
No thanks, I WANT content.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
You are missing the whole point of the Broadcast Flag  tic swayback | 06/28/06
Hog wash... Visit any P2P...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
And the broadcast flag will stop p2p how?  tic swayback | 06/28/06
No tyhou air ways, not your rules. They are mine.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
Others see a way to higher profits  tic swayback | 06/28/06
And finally, as I said, via a social contract  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
Is it worth it?  tic swayback | 06/28/06
You are CHOOSING to be obtuse.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
Criminal actions?  tic swayback | 06/28/06
YES, ABSOLUTLEY !!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
Isn't that exactly what they're asking for?  tic swayback | 06/28/06
tic, sure wish you had argued this hard against piracy.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
Blaming the victim  tic swayback | 06/28/06
Yes, restrictions punish all.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
Incorrect  tic swayback | 06/28/06
You can say End of Story until H*ll freezes, your wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06
Needed by who?  tic swayback | 06/28/06
Congress is weak  opensourcepro | 06/28/06
What a silly statement!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/06

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