08-09-2012, 03:36 PM | #46 |
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Before the Internet some people believed everything they read and everything they saw on TV. Why would the Internet be any different?
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While movie piracy is morally wrong, if it results in lower budget films, I don't see artistic harm. (My favorite movie of recent years was the King's Speech.) But if books with lots of up front research costs can't be produced, or authors are forced to churn out multiple books a year, I do see harm beyond the loss of incomes. Quote:
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One concern I have with penalties less than loss of internet service is that the upcoming US alternative, bandwidth throttling, would be a problem for movie downloaders, but slow internet is fine for books. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 08-09-2012 at 09:50 PM. |
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08-09-2012, 11:17 PM | #48 |
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What is your evidence that piracy results in artistic harm to authors? I'd prefer evidence of that before changes to the law are made and a bureaucracy is put in place to enforce it.
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Now replace "LP" with "CD" and "tape deck" with "mp3/ogg/FLAC encoding/storage equipment" and we 're home again, ain't we? Even the tantrums and pseudo panic from the companies and agencies is the same tune with new lyrics. The only reason books were rarely backup copied then was that pbooks were easier repairable than other media carriers and didn't degrade while read like LP or tape due to physical contact with reading unit. |
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08-12-2012, 06:10 AM | #50 |
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Well, economics and marketing is not something government is particularly good at. After most of a career spent in government, I can say what government is good at is counting, classifying, and hoarding. Ironically, disbursement of said hoarded material is NOT a skill set government has or could ever get good at.
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