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Originally Posted by markbot
Property rights is one of the most important aspects of a republic.
Protecting intellectual property rights is in the US constitution, even before they mention free press. If people didn't get paid at the market rate for their intellectual property there would be far less intellectual property since people would lack incentive.
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WEEEEeeeeeeelll... Right off the bat, MarkBot, we've got a problem. Most readers are not in the US and fall under other rules for written works. (And please tell me how property rights of the creators are protected by megacorporations which take their property, diddle the accounts and stiff said creators on the royalties? Okay, I admit it. I've been on the receiving end of this kind of 'help' - which is why I'm totally behind the WGA strike against the major studios.) Funny thing is, there are TONS of manuscripts floating around out there, probably 99% of which never see the light of a published-day. Yet these manuscripts keep getting written and submitted despite the abysmal pay scale offered by the megapublishers.
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As we've seen with the music industry, intellectual property in electronic form can be successful if it has DRM.....and is a disaster without DRM. Some major music acts now make paying for their CDs optional since they know anyone under 35 can figure how to get it for free anyway.
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If it were not inconceivably bad taste, I'd wonder just what you've been smoking - and where can I get some! Man, that is *CLEARLY* on hallucinogenic HIGH you're running on. First, most major bands have been making *THEIR* income for decades off their tours because the music industry finds ways to hog all the record profits for themselves. Second, while the publishing industry loves to sweep the facts under the rug, even the most cursory study of how DRM-free ebooks has boosted sales of dead-tree editions at Baen Books gives the lie to the whole 'no DRM is *bad* for sales' myth propagated by the megapublishers. Third, why *SHOULD* music lovers be forced to buy 13 crappy 'songs' on a CD for the one or two - at best - melodies worth listening to?
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Absence of DRM reduces the smartest and most creative people in society to hobos. This is an inverted incentive structure.
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You must not know many authors. If you did, you'd realize that except for a few big-name authors, *MOST* don't earn enough to qualify better than middle-class. And once again, I have to point out that this is because so *MUCH* of each book's price goes to the retailer and the publisher. It ain't DRM that causes this, it's the megapublisher!
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So, let's all applaud Amazon's efforts to protect the smartest and most creative people in society so that they can continue to live off of the intellectual property.
And I like how they did the DRM for the Kindle also. Looks robust.
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And I'm sure Amazon loves that you've so bought into the Big Lie the publishing industry is spreading. Don't worry, Amazon's DRM will be cracked, and probably sooner than anyone has predicted.
Look, I don't mind DRM. Lord knows I buy enough eReader, Fictionwise and Mobipocket ebooks loaded with the crap. But I have the power to choose which device I can read them on. Amazon's AZW takes that away from me. Three cheers to anyone who cracks AZW!
Derek