naive Wrote:Actually, emotional conditions can be tracked, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Google, facebook, twitter all keep national emotion indices.

It has selection bias. That aside, there is no quantitative data for the emotions themselves, though there can quant. data for related things around emotions like blood alcohol level. ;P

naive Wrote:If I copy your deed and start living in your house, all I have done is copy information in order to justify my access to your property without needing your consent.

This isn't a matter of copyright law, it's a matter of fraud.

naive Wrote:When you copy a movie, you are simply copying information that allows you view a group of people performing without their consent. Sure only a few electrons may be inconvenienced in delivering the media to you, but it is at the direct expense of those who you are watching and deriving value from. Just because you can't physically hold it in your hand does not make it less real or less valuable.

What I'm saying is is that if the media has already been distributed and can be copied, it's not ethical to keep that from the artistic or scientific community for the sake of preserving a monopoly. There are other ways to make money on this stuff.

naive Wrote:Would you claim that you should be let in for free to all Broadway shows because information should be free?

That's labor, which is different. You can't copy labor without some sort of consideration. I claim that if anyone who went to one of those shows was kind enough to record a digital copy and post it online, that I should not be inhibited from viewing it. This would be the same for someone who bootlegs off of a movie.

The fact is though, I still go pay to see a movie or go to see a band in concert because the purpose of it is to experience a production that my computer can't capture on it's own.