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Originally Posted by NatCh
If I'm (finally) understanding what you're getting at, you're saying that copyright laws (mostly) worked when copying required a lot of infrastructure to do on any sort of scale, because only a few fairly large players could do it in enough quantity to make an impact, and those few were relatively easily tracked down if they got out of line.
But now, copying is so simple, cheap and easy, and distribution the same plus largely anonymous, which makes enforcement next to impossible because there are a multitude of small, more or less invisible "operations" which can have a great impact, individually and collectively.
So it's not so much that the copyright laws have stopped working as it is that the paradigm has shifted in such a way that what was enforcible, no longer is enforcible.
Am I following/extrapolating more or less correctly what you mean, bingle?
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Ahh, yes. That covers it. Amazing how you can say in a few sentences which I've been failing to say in pages and pages. One would think I really was being paid by the word ;-)
Also, I don't think this paradigm shift is negative (which is the main difference, I think, between my view and others). It's change, surely, but I think it brings greater benefits than it does costs.
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Originally Posted by NatCh
The two responding approaches I see are try to create some new way to enforce the laws which is possible (though DRM is already failing rather badly), or try to find a totally new approach to realizing gain for the IP generators' efforts. Which of course brings us back full circle.  |
My other point, which I didn't make quite as much, is that I think approach one is impossible and/or too harmful. DRM will be broken, and more laws will merely reduce our freedoms while not stopping the flow (unless we go so far as to no longer be a free society).
So the only option for anyone who wants to see IP generation continue is approach two. I put out a few ideas about how that would work, but there are problems with all of them. I honestly don't know the way forward.