Comments on: ‘People love to share …’ http://a2f2a.com/2009/11/10/people-love-to-share/ The net's first, and only, artists-to-fans-to-artists blog! Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: thepeer http://a2f2a.com/2009/11/10/people-love-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-892 thepeer Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:57:51 +0000 http://a2f2a.com/?p=790#comment-892 @Quantam - fixed! @Quantam – fixed!

]]> By: Quantam http://a2f2a.com/2009/11/10/people-love-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Quantam Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:46:31 +0000 http://a2f2a.com/?p=790#comment-663 Apologies for the off-topic post, but I wasn't quite sure where else to put this. There's one part of the color scheme of a2f2a that's really nasty: the way that text in quote boxes (normally, like regular text, aqua on black) becomes aqua on white on mouseover (this appears to occur in both FireFox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8). Besides being unreadable, it's really jarring to have a large portion of the screen suddenly and drastically change color when you just happen to move the mouse across it. Apologies for the off-topic post, but I wasn’t quite sure where else to put this. There’s one part of the color scheme of a2f2a that’s really nasty: the way that text in quote boxes (normally, like regular text, aqua on black) becomes aqua on white on mouseover (this appears to occur in both FireFox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8). Besides being unreadable, it’s really jarring to have a large portion of the screen suddenly and drastically change color when you just happen to move the mouse across it.

]]> By: philhunt http://a2f2a.com/2009/11/10/people-love-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-659 philhunt Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:38:47 +0000 http://a2f2a.com/?p=790#comment-659 John Barron: <i>on the ideas such as media levies or ISP taxes, there’s a big suspicion in our minds that these can be a slush fund, and that they tend to primarily benefit the collecting agency and the established industry</i> I think you're right there, and that if there was a levy, it would have to be designed so that the money went to artists and not to middlemen. And, at least for me, there's a moral issue involved in this: those industries that've spent the last decade trying to destroy my freedom don't deserve my money -- I don't want to give them a single penny. Having said that, I do think a workable levy system (perhaps like <a href="http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-for-the-uk/" rel="nofollow">this one</a>) would be a good way of encouraging new creative works. John Barron: on the ideas such as media levies or ISP taxes, there’s a big suspicion in our minds that these can be a slush fund, and that they tend to primarily benefit the collecting agency and the established industry

I think you’re right there, and that if there was a levy, it would have to be designed so that the money went to artists and not to middlemen. And, at least for me, there’s a moral issue involved in this: those industries that’ve spent the last decade trying to destroy my freedom don’t deserve my money — I don’t want to give them a single penny.

Having said that, I do think a workable levy system (perhaps like this one) would be a good way of encouraging new creative works.

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