But on a different note, some theme is sortve bothering me. Its the arguement of "well back in the day, they had to fly here and there, in their grandparents pj's, in 5 feet of snow" etc
Please don't compare "back then" to now, its 2 different worlds.
Are they?
Maybe they are the same, but because of where you are standing, you just can't see it.
This is a discussion about the value of information. How can you divorce the value of that information from the cost required to obtain it?
This isn't a case of someone watching someone elses dvd and parroting it on their own. If that were the case, I would agree with you.
No, this is someone who has spent years of his life and thousands of dollars finding, collecting, assimilating, analyzing and synthesizing this information. Where did he get it - well, he walked up hill - both ways.
If someone hands you 50 rare jewels, I suppose I can see how you might be inclined to use them to line a fish bowl or give them away. Afterall, you have no investment, no sacrifice in obtaining them. They were just handed to you.
But what if you were the guy who went into the mines everyday, lost a finger from a pick, toiled every hour in order to find just one rare nugget? What if you had to pay for all that equipment, your contractors, and all that went into maintaining that mine?
Don't you think you might see a little more 'value' in the item, want a little bit more, for your work and investment?
But before answering, ask yourself - what if jason decided not to share his work at any price? That would be his perogative, yes?
Where would you be?
Could you just snag another digital download that contained the wisdom culled from rare books dating back hundreds of years, the collected wisdom of some of the finest card handlers in the world, and a masterly demonstration of each of the moves you want to learn?
Oh right - that doesn't exist. And for it to exist - someone has to go down into the mine and work their ass off.
Are you volunteering?
After a day or two, you might begin to realize Any price is too cheap
That was true then and its still true today.
.Real information is not handed out to people who just ask. Not then - and not now.
It may seem like it, but that's because you are very lucky and very unlucky all at the same time.
There is more copying and derivitive work being produced now than ever before. When something is given to you cheaply, its easy to treat it cheaply. And thus another one trick dvd based on some other guys crappy version of a trick that at one time was pretty good when it first appeared in print 20 years ago hits the market.
Easy come, easy go.
This is glass that is being pawned off as diamonds and sold - so kind of them - at cubic zirconiam prices.
But ultimately, it's still glass.
But what of those people who worked hard on their ideas?
What of the people who have truly mined the diamonds?
Well, You probably haven't heard of most of them. They know that the value of any good idea is more than the cost of having a decades (that's right, a decades) worth of work trivialized into another torrent to trade like baseball cards. As one poster cleverly pointed out 'Heck, the name tells you the move, what more do you need?' (And for many, that may not be what they need, but honestly, its all the really want!)
it's not suprising then that people who do not know the difference between what is valuable and what is trivia cannot understand why others are offended.
They are also the last to realize how their words and actions keep the diamonds out of reach. Why should some offer their jewels before a group who is going to dismiss the product of their work as 'overpriced' when they demonstrate they have NO IDEA of the investments required to procure it.
but why think about that, when you have a fishbowl lined with jewels.