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DiegodelaPuenteSecondPaper 20 - 18 Mar 2012 - Main.DiegodelaPuente
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READY FOR THIRD REVISION | | | In 1997 and in a more economic sense, Eric Schlachter described that the profit-maximizing price on the Internet will be where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, because intellectual property will be cross subsidized by other products in a manner sufficient to cover the fixed costs associated with intellectual property creation and distribution. Under this statement, Schlachter considered that a market price of zero for intellectual property can still create long-term economic profits by means of advertising, sales of upgrade models and sales of complementary technology. Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, also contribute to this economic discussion demonstrating potential profitability in an age of unrestricted copying. In their book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, they discuss several instances where the absence of copyright has not led to bankruptcy, and in the contrary some industries became profitable. For instance, consumers may often pay to get access to the breaking news stories first, even though the same will eventually be available to the public at a later time. Recently, Pandora, MOG and Spotify business models follow this path in the music industry, where users would listen for free, but they would have to submit to a few minutes of advertisement every hour.
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< | The Copyright discussion stated above is only one battle in the war that the Internet is facing against multiple rivals. The Internet has allowed freedom of expression in its maximum level, access to information and education, and eliminated the artificial boundaries that our ancestors created to divide us. Therefore, the Internet is changing the life of millions and particularly governments are not willing to lose the power and control that they have over their citizens; even traditional democratic governments are starting to be afraid of the Internet when they should not. The Internet is a tool that can help people and it's the people who will decide if it is useful or not, not the governments or other economic interests. Unfortunately, world wide governments are more willing to sacrifice their citizens freedom than their selfs to consolidate power; when their power comes from the wills of the ones they want to slave. Good leaders should learn how to be governed by their citizens and not the other way around. | >
> | The Copyright discussion stated above is only one battle in the war that the Internet is facing against multiple rivals that are trying to preserve their political and economic power. The Internet has been an unpredictable source of freedom for the people, allowing the exchange of ideas and expressions in its maximum level and eliminating artificial boundaries that our ancestors created to divide us. Therefore, the Internet is changing the way of thinking of millions and particularly governments are not willing to lose the power and control that they have gained over their citizens through the last centuries; even traditional democratic governments are starting to be afraid of the Internet when they should be the first to defend it. | | | | |
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> | The Internet is allowing a world wide free market of ideas, strengthen individual autonomy and achieving extreme decentralization. Unfortunately, governments are willing to sacrifice their citizens' freedom to consolidate their power, when their power comes from the wills of the ones they want to slave. That is a battle
in which they are doomed to lose. The Internet is a tool that can help people in multiple ways that we cannot even imagine yet; and it's the people who must decide if it is useful or not, not the governments or other economic powers regarding their interests. New ways of government could be more useful than the current to foster innovation and new ways of freedom that were not conceived by our ancestors. | | |
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