Kionon wrote:I'm honestly about ready to stop buying content of any kind. No more cds, no more dvds, no more movie tickets, I may even limit myself solely to public domain ebooks and creative commons material and use the sources I have already purchased.
I'm this close to done with mainstream media providers.
Please don't conflate
copyright restrictions with
payment incentive; the concepts are independent.
(This thread has gone way off-topic but I'm going to use the tangent as a soapbox.)
Exchanging money for copies of works isn't something limited to works distributed under the default "all rights reserved" restriction set. There are people who will sell you a copy of a public domain work (see, for example, some of the work in the Penguin Classics line) or even Creative Commons music (Magnatune) and video art (any of the three films the Blender Foundation has done). There are many other examples out there besides the ones I named; you can use Google to find more.
In fact, I'd
hope that you choose to pay money for copies of stuff that you could, legally, get for zero price. I don't agree with the copyright restrictions and hardware/software invaders that Big Media pushes for, but I do think that I agree with a variant on what they say: that artists should be rewarded if you like what they do. As such I buy copies of Magnatune albums, things like the Blender Foundation project DVDs, and donate to free software projects I like.
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