Philip Lelyveld comment: Jaron Lanier makes an interesting argument for the hidden cost of uncompensated copying.
Copying a musician’s music ruins economic dignity. It doesn’t necessarily deny the musician any form of income, but it does mean that the musician is restricted to a real-time economic life. That means one gets paid to perform, perhaps, but not paid for music one has recorded in the past.
Meanwhile, some third-party spy service like a social network or search engine will invariably create persistent wealth from the information that is copied, the recordings.
Read the full article here: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/04/digital-music-is-like-a-mortgage/?curator=MediaReDEF