Direct response to your quote complaining that people are able to profit on others' work.
And an idiotic one, legitimately inferred by NOTHING I said.
Sorry, no, analogy doesn't work. What is it with you people and making up ridiculous comparisons that don't even make sense?
Sure it does. Owning one song is like owning one shop.
It is, by definition, a monopoly. Whether you choose to accept it or not is inconsequential.
Right. Having control over ONE song among millions is a monopoly. Riiiight.
And if KFC wants to produce their own cola to compete with Coca-Cola, there is no problem there. Another faulty analogy from you.
No, actually, it's a perfectly legitimate analogy, and you yourself just demonstrated exactly why.
No owner of a song is stopping anyone else from creating their own songs and competing, just like Coca-Cola can't stop anyone else from creating their own cola.
Thus, my analogy works perfectly. Thanks for pointing out how.
Besides, Mr. Unfettered Capitalism -- what have you got against monopolies?
So you're going to stop appealing to authority? Thank you, since I have never done so in this thread.
Certainly you have. You've appealed to "Western concepts" and "natural law" or whatever you choose to say it.
You say it's the Way Things Are. Prove it.
Freedom of contract would allow me to sell CDs that I own to a willing buyer without interference from the state.
Not if the seller exercises his freedom of contract and includes provision which doesn't permit it. You're free to take those terms or leave them. When you buy a CD, you're taking them. You've made a free choice. Whining about it doesn't change it.
Hardly, government is merely a monopoly on force.
So? It's the force which protects your precious property "rights."
Try to keep up.
Another straw man. I have never sought to do that.
Sure you do -- by denying the concept of the property right altogether.
Of course, I've never actually appealed to authority at all in this thread.
Well, you have not in the sense that you've yet to show how "rights" are enumerated in the way you claim.
But you certainly have appealed to "nature" or "God," as I pointed out above.
You're simply making things up the way you prefer them to be. If you are not, show it.
By the way, if I make the claim that the English defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, and then cite a slew of history books as proof, that is an appeal to authority, because I have no firsthand knowledge of it. But it's a legitimate appeal to authority, because there's no other means of proof. Therefore, you have it conceptually wrong.
Not that you haven't all the way through this.
If you want a false appeal to authority, I'll give you this -- you claim that what you say is the absolute truth, yet you've offered nothing other than your proclamation of it as evidence.
You are a false authority.
So, now's the time -- put up. Show your case to be irrefutably true.
If you won't or can't, there's not much point in wasting any further energy on this, because you've got nothing.
