It is this question that is asked a friend of mine at a party with people willing to reflection . Since my Doctor Philo I like all the rest of Super-Heroes hero incognito my family and my pets do not know about my super-power philosophy.
So I do not want to speak but there were yet many things to say.
So it's true that Internet distribution of texts, documents, images, music - whatever else? - Created a new impression, that one could get without paying, that is to say without buying or renting, everything I just mentioned, regardless of whether they are also further goods. Hence suggesting that the road is not very long before the company disappears market, there is not one - at least for the wild imagination of some.
The debate on the law Hadopi reminded us that for some, especially artists of show biz, selling products of their art was the very condition their production. No money, no Swiss Racine said, no money, no singer say our artists in the Top 50.
So here: the debate is clouded because it condenses two different questions:
1 - What which can be free?
2 - For what must be paid, how to set the right price?
For the first, the answer is simple: free everything that can be given. If we write a blog, we give something to our readers and we never thought certainly not to make them pay (and we must be careful that our provider does not add any advertising behind our backs) . Of course, composers have no intention of giving their creation. Therefore we must pay - fairly priced.
For the second, which is therefore the right price, I think the issue is much more interesting.
-> Users of illegal downloading say, " I refuse to pay the price of an album or a DVD, because it's too expensive. Majors fatten on our backs, is unacceptable. " So it's actually a fair price that is in question, and it's not that simple to say what it is.
We see from the beginning of the financial crisis, and traders know this: you can not sell if it does not discount, however small, even illusory. The buyers refused to pay full price - even when it is the normal price. It is no longer the commodity that determines the value of things, but the market. One is surprised when it finds that a TGV passengers all paid a different price for the same journey: that the ticket has a value proportional to the degree of filling of the train. Finished the tour price fixed by the length of the trail.
Amaze yourself so that downloaders of music without paying claims themselves set the amount to pay for their downloads? And they do not care if the artist happens to live with what they leave? He wonders if we pay our driver's TGV is covered by the price of our ticket?
Free is yet in the consciousness of Web users as a consequence of technological progress and not a matter of copyright. But above all, free is a freedom and we rarely give up a freedom.
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