03-23-2010, 12:34 PM | #31 |
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There's no hope.
Until that nonsense "pay per copy" model will be definitely abandoned, the dark side, in a way or the other, will rule. The future is either a "per content" fee, where I pay the author to access the content unlimited times and in infinite copies, or the same old model, where new ways to "share" content will rise and fall like waves in the ocean. And the smart ones will have everything for free. |
03-23-2010, 02:02 PM | #32 |
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03-23-2010, 02:13 PM | #33 | |
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Intellectual property doesn't stop being usable by other people when someone makes an unauthorized copy/uses it without permission (in the case of patents and trademarks). If I take your car, you can't drive it while I've got it. If I take a picture of your car and make a copy of your custom paint job, it may affect the resale value (because yours is no longer unique), but it doesn't keep you from using or showing off your car. |
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Ditto to Elfwreck, and generalising his assert, what is meant is that physical property's deprivation implies a net loss, which means losing something that you had before it was stolen. Intellectual property's deprivation implies that you lose potential gains which haven't been realised, but not anything that you had before the "stealing" took place.
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Publishers who stick with paper will be the true victors, with those who waste resources on the doomed "e" format in danger of losing the means of production of real books. |
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Psycho!
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If I argue in a circle, then I won't have any corners - so how could he be in mine? Anyway, he's called me a psycho, so we're back on name-calling terms again (or him calling me names, at any rate)
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