Re: More Napster Pablum

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From: ThosStew@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 06:24:44 PDT


> certainly people need to be paid, and paid proportionally to the
 novelty, difficulty / rarity, utility, aesthetic desirability,
cost-of-goods,
>and impact of their product.

No: They should be paid according to how many people want their product, and
how much they are willing to be regardless of its novelty, orginality,
aesthetic desireability, etc. Cost is the producer's to endure and control;
value is the consumer's to define.

T


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