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Without copyright protection for content producers, there is no commercial incentive to create content. Amateur writing is all well and good, and bravo to those who do write for the love of it, but if you want professional authors to carry on writing, there has to be an effective mechanism in place to allow those authors the opportunity to make a fair return from their work.
DRM is not inherently bad - most of us, for example, accept without complaint the DRM which is present on DVDs, and the reason for that is that all DVD players will play such DVDs. What is needed is an effective DRM mechanism for eBooks that is a universal standard, and does not impede customers from making reasonable use of their books. Much as I'd like to see the abolition of DRM, I honestly believe that's an unrealistic goal. |
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And I do not accept, nor have I ever accepted DRM on any product I buy. I strip the DRM immediately and content shift all my DVD/Blu-Ray/Book purchases into a non-DRM format. The unrealistic goal is that DRM can survive in the face of the internet. It cannot. It will not. It should not. |
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A 'professional' artist is for me a bit of an oxymoron. But even so, I believe most people will want to reward a writer they like. They don't have to be forced by artificial means like drm. Speaking for myself, as I am of a contrary nature, being forced to pay for something (especially extra)will have a negative effect on me actually paying. |
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Another thing I can do is to not buy DRM books. Publishers aren't going to notice that though. They'll just chalk lower sales up to piracy. They'll think that they need more laws and better DRM. And to show you how UTTERLY STUPID they are, I have a true story. In the mid '90s there was a lot of talk about the "Internet Supper Highway". There was a senator (I'm not sure which state he was from, somewhere around Montana or North/South Dakota) that asked "What can we do to prevent drunk driving on the Internet Supper Highway?" Those that believe that the "government" can help us.... Well, maybe they shouldn’t drive drunk on the Internet Supper Highway. |
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It's painfully obvious that most legislators have no idea what they are talking about, at least in technological matters. But they never let that stop them. And the less you know, the more you fear of course. |
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Hey, name me a drm that wasn't broken ? They only make sure the paid product have less value, because it is locked. And if you where speaking of drm on DVD, these are pain really. Make putting a copy on my portable player a bit of a mess. (Yes, MY player, for MY use.) An illegal copy would have just been copy / past. And blue-ray are even worse. I'll think twice before buying an other one. Customer don't buy someting to put it on torrent site. On the other hand, they want someting that "just works". And DRM succed in making things not working, a lot. Music industry got the message, and ditched DRM. No we're wating for the movies, books and gamming industry to wake up. Is dmca really applied ? I don't think anyone went to trial for de-drm for personal use right ? Last edited by EowynCarter; 06-06-2010 at 10:15 AM. |
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It seems like simple common sense to me, Tommy.
Copyright law grants the creator of a work the exclusive right to control it and profit from it. I don't need to conduct "empirical studies" to tell me that if that exclusive right to profit from a work did not exist, neither would the motive to create it. |
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You should know that historically people have always created. And even when we have copyright it seems that exclusive right is nearly never a necessary condition to create.
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No, I didn't say that. What I said - and the statement that you quoted - was:
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Books will follow the same path as music. It has so far, with the same mistakes being made at each point along the way. So far the only thing that the book publishers did differently was that they didn't try to block the manufacture of standalone ebook readers like the music publishers tried to do with mp3 players.
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