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Respond to the question: EULAs?
08/25/2012 08:39 AM by name withheld;
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Respond to the question: why not allow file sharing of illegally?
08/25/2012 08:38 AM by name withheld;
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Respond to the question: Fundamental Errors In Reasoning?
05/05/2009 05:37 AM by Boris; RE: Fundamental errors in reasoning
Well, the arguments about re-selling goods got me confused, too. They wrote their essay in the spirit of an era, where it is impossible to resell used CDs, although they mention that it is possible ("..I can even sell it, but the limit [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: already working business model with hand?
11/05/2008 01:51 AM by charon; already working business model with handing out free creative works: advertisements
There already is a successful business model that is based on handing out free creative works and making profit elsewhere. Companies make their advertisement freely available. They even pay for it's distribution. Specifically in the [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: Alternate legal way to break monopoly?
04/18/2005 01:38 AM by Muxec; Alternate legal way to break monopoly
As it was already said the major problem is monopoly on demand not on supply. RIAA unites all publishers and controls all demand for artist's and performer's labor. Also it controls half of the supply (the rest of the supply comes to [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: Morally Wrong yet Good?
02/15/2005 09:17 AM by name withheld; Critical flaws in that reasoning.
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Respond to the question: Evaluate my new ebusiness idea?
10/21/2004 08:12 PM by name withheld;
this doesn't make sense, copying keys to cars does not make a duplicate of the car. copying music does not steal the original music from the owner [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: What was wrong with the world before vin?
12/12/2002 02:20 AM by Ideosophist; What was wrong with the world before vinyl?
Before the advent of vinyl performers were just that performers. Recording technologies created a way to record the performances to package and resell. Little did they know it was temporary. Recording production is losing demand and [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: What if Content was Object Oriented Dec?
10/19/2002 02:30 PM by TRE; THIS ARTICLE IS VERY ONE SIDED!
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Respond to the question: Fundamental Errors In Reasoning?
05/17/2002 10:03 AM by James Chia; Fundamental Errors In Reasoning.
I read through with great interest the article by the authors but i believe that there are some fundamental errors in logic. For one there is apparent confusion about "what the product is." For example, when i buy a car, one would [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: What about films?
03/29/2002 11:46 PM by Marc Moisan-Plante; What about films?
Would you have the same arguments for the film industry? Although there are large rents in that industry, it is still costly to produce a film with "special effects" (for the benefit of all, let's make sure we get Jurassic Park 4 [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: Napster?
02/19/2002 12:28 PM by name withheld; Napster
What are the legal arguments pro-Napster. I see that you are taking an economist's view, but what is the legal view-HOW CAN WE PROVE THAT IT IS OK TO FILE SHARE? [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: Evaluate my new ebusiness idea?
02/22/2001 10:12 PM by David Levine for Doug Bennett; Evaluate my new e-business idea....
Keyster (Our slogan: Save your keister with key-ster!) [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: Evaluate my n ew Ebusiness idea?
02/14/2001 01:43 PM by Doug Bennett; Evaluate my n ew E-business idea!
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Respond to the question: EULAs?
11/13/2000 09:33 AM by Walter;
That sounds interesting. You may want to elaborate on the idea and contact David Levine. Also, Benjamin Klein is an expert in Microsoft issues (you can find his e-mail address in the UCLA Economics faculty contact list). [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: What the law should be?
10/30/2000 12:46 PM by David Levine; What the law should be
We weren't arguing about what the law is, but rather what it should be. We are arguing that transfers on Napster should be legal, not that they are. I should point out, that what music producers "thought" they were transfering to you [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: none?
10/30/2000 11:27 AM by doug bennett;
what producers of music thought they were 'voluntarily transferring' to you (in exchange for money) in the pre-napster days was the right for YOU to LISTEN to their music; not the right for you to copy it and give it away/sell it [View full text and thread]

Respond to the question: Disneyland?
10/12/2000 10:01 PM by Chris Rasch; Would consumers benefit from a monopoly on the "Disneyland Experience?"
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