Comment Re: What about radio? (Score 1) 169
That's the way it SHOULD be.
Performances are naturally scarce, and can provide all the necessary funding.
Making things that are naturally abundant artificially scarce is wrong. It is economically wrong because it reduces our return on an already sunk investment, it is morally wrong because it causes needless hardship to massive numbers of people, and it is strategically wrong because cultured neighbours are safer neighbours to have than culturally starved savages.
There are valid arguments on the "for" side, but, in my judgement, they don't carry enough weight to overcome the "against" arguments.