[plug] Online music services and Linux?

[Alex Nordstrom]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:42, Rod wrote:
> maybe its just the correction back to reality (file sharing making
> recordings worthless, the pressure goes back onto your day to day
> performances, infront of real people with real money)

In economical terms, digital information is non-rivalrous and 
non-excludable by nature, which would make it a public good[1]. The aim 
of copyright law is to coax it into being a private good by design. How 
effective this measure is depends strictly on popular adherence to the 
law.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good

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Alex Nordstrom
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