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In Reply to: I'd be peeved posted by k-k-k-kenny on July 17, 2012 at 20:33:30:
Your distinction of two different meanings of "value" is telling. Back in the golden age of the music industry, record companies took the work of a musician, which might be of great aesthetic or intrinsic "value", though that is subjective of course, and made it valuable in the sense of commanding a price on a nationwide or even worldwide market. And the musicians typically received only a small percentage of the resulting profits.
Today, the internet makes marketing music much cheaper and replicating and distributing it almost free. And I'm told even the recording itself is easier and cheaper than it used to be. So, record company profits are disappearing, though they still aren't going to the musicians, who continue to make not very much. Using piracy as an excuse to increase copyright protection isn't going to change any of that substantially, but it does make legitimate innovative work more expensive to do.
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