[IP] more on Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers' Activities

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: jean_camp <jean_camp@harvard.edu>
Date: October 31, 2005 10:36:08 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing  
Consumers' Activities

That is the essential problem - without some requirement for  
reasonable and mandatory licensing there is no freedom of choice. The  
Beasty Boys is not a substitute for Bach which is not a substitute  
for the Beatles. It is the absence of choice and the use of limited  
monopoly powers to prevent choice and competition that is the  
problem. Of course, the irony is that those limited monopoly  powers  
are intended to create more choice.

I am all for a market. I would like a competitive one, not a  
centrally planned market run by monopolists. Those centrally planned  
markets do seem to be a bit less optimal, and tend to force  
participants into market subversion.

thanks,
Jean

On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:50 PM, David Farber wrote:

> There are legal competitors out there, guys.  Use your freedom of  
> choice.


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