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There is some truth to that. It may not work out the way individuals want. The theft of sheet music by Xeroxing didn't destroy the market where musicians could read. It dented the popular music market. The religious music market (say choral directors) kept going and that is where the high quality music is anyway (Rock destroyed the American songbook for quality songs in the pop market). So it is not type, but the subtype and customer class that determine quality, therefore, profit based on quality. Churches buy a lot of sheet music. The effect you will notice will be ever increasing prices for the concert tickets, movie tickets, really useful software, etc. The DRM technique where music is only playable on certain devices retards that market eventually although iPods do reasonably well, Macs are still selling, etc., but the vendor begins to buy market share and that is never a good business practice. Note the announcements that first release movie tickets will now be selling for three to four times the standard prices in the theatres. As the ownership society has taken more of the wealth, they are increasingly the dominant target for the marketing department. At some point, competition in the lower tier is restarted by a new technology, a new business model, or quality (note the safety standards of KIAs). Then slumming becomes trendy again. The SecondLife CopyBot brouhaha is the new hot topic, but it is just one group of technologists finding a value sink and tapping it the same way people tapped the music market. The only news value of that story is they are stealing inside a virtual economy that was converting virtual dollars to real dollars. But it is value that makes anything worth stealing. Ten years ago, the theft inside the pioneering 3D communities was quite low because it had no resale currency and it was so easy and cheap to make. It is the fact of the virtual-to-real currency economy that makes theft worth doing just as the high prices of CDs made burners sell. As to the amount of protection a society offers against theft: it absolutely depends on *who* is being burgled, not what, why, how or when. And so it goes. len >IMHO, is really horrible and evile, but can have 1 nice side effect : >may change the industry from hit -driven to quality driven. And this >is a good thing.
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