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Two Comments to Michael Petch
Posted By: Rich Munitz In Response To: Two Comments to Michael Petch (higonefive)
Date: Saturday, 29 January 2011, at 10:55 p.m.
If a product is for sale and you feel the price is too high compared to the value of what is being provided, then it is your right to not purchase. But are you seriously saying that if a product is on sale at a store for a price that you consider to be more than you are willing to spend, and the store has not spent money to hire security guards, that it is OK to take what you want and walk out without paying because the store has not protected itself?
You ask the question "what is the proper prize for a man's work"? If a man spends hours of his time to record a match by hand or by use of recording equipment that he has invested in, and then hours to transcribe it into a software program, and that match record is something that nobody else in the universe possesses, and there are many people who would like to have a copy of it, is it unreasonable for that man to charge those people for a copy for their own personal use as fair compensation for his efforts and expense? Do you begrudge that man the right to earn income from his work to pay for his time and cover his production costs and the food he must eat and the roof over his head when he stops work? Sure, you could have gone through the effort of traveling to an event and capturing and transcribing the match yourself and had the same product in the end. But you didn't, nor did anyone else. You are paying for a service here, plain and simple.
That is the underlying interest. We are not talking about someone taking a copy of something freely available from the public record and claiming dominion and ownership over it. We are talking about someone creating something unique at their own time and expense and asking anyone in the public that finds it of value to help fund that effort and others like it. If you do not find such a product to be of value to you, then fine; don't buy it. But please consider becoming a member anyway. Do you think some people have given thousands of dollars of their own money to the USBGF because of what they expect to get in return? People donate to organizations all the time without asking "what's in it for me". They do it because they support the mission and want to help it succeed.
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