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Jul. 12th, 2005 03:01 pmThis is just a small thing, but I find it terrifying:
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article298067.ece
Classical labels object to the BBC giving away downloads of Beethoven's symphony because it "devalues music".
Not long ago, in America, some weather-forecast company complained about free weather forecasts, saying that (iirc) the US government was interfering with their business by distributing information that, were it not being given away for free, people might pay money for. Of course, it's possible that companies have made this kind of argument forever and I'm just hearing about it now, but it always chills my blood. Remember the anti-Linux polemics about how giving things away for free subverted American ideals?
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article298067.ece
Classical labels object to the BBC giving away downloads of Beethoven's symphony because it "devalues music".
Not long ago, in America, some weather-forecast company complained about free weather forecasts, saying that (iirc) the US government was interfering with their business by distributing information that, were it not being given away for free, people might pay money for. Of course, it's possible that companies have made this kind of argument forever and I'm just hearing about it now, but it always chills my blood. Remember the anti-Linux polemics about how giving things away for free subverted American ideals?
