[sdiy] Can anyone OCR the AN23.PDF File Here?

[Pete Hartman]

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 07.07.2017 19:40, Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr wrote:
>
>>        (b)  How would the PDF collection be distributed?   Make that -
>> safely
>> distributed.
>>
>
> that cannot be done. the music and the movie and ebook industry have all
> tried and failed. digital = it will be pirated.
>
>         (c)  What happens to my paper.   Remember, in business you only
>> get your
>> investment back when you have sold all your inventory, and that I am doing
>> step-by-step. Recycler?
>>
>
> sell paper + PDF? let people give you the money but spare them from having
> to scan it all by themselves...
>
>
I think the disconnect between your two responses here is pretty obvious.

== it will be pirated

At which point the number of people willing to pay for the paper and a
right to use the PDF will shrink.  Yes, there will still be those who are
honorable enough to do the right thing, but there are certainly enough
people in the world who sit on that edge of convenience vs cost that it
would chip away an already tiny market.

We're not talking about "mass media" here after all.  Sony & Universal & so
forth can make up the piracy cost because they do huge volume.  I really
don't see how Bernie has the same opportunity.

I think Bernie's made it pretty clear -- if you think the potential gain
(financially) outweighs the risk, you could take over the business and do
it yourself :)  But he doesn't agree that it does, and as it's ultimately
his enterprise (for now at least), all the argument in the world rehashing
the same assertions that have been made over and over in this very thread
isn't going to change anything.  Except maybe eventually driving him away
from this forum, which would be a shame.

Pete
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