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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I would consider your intellectual product your property, whether it takes physical form or not (and as software, even a copy of software, it is in a physical form).
Hallalujah. Thus endeth the lesson.
Again, you have had intellectual property taken from you without permission. Unless you agreed to that without compensation, I still believe you have a *right* to be paid for it.
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I didn't lose anything but sleep if I decided to get twisted about it. I got over that long ago. its just not realistic...and the alternative is worse to me. See below:
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Exactly. Arguing about how many mouse-clicks it takes is being obtuse. This is an ethical issue, nothing less, and part of the Big Picture that we can't afford to ignore.
We are compromising principles, here... we are unilaterally sacrificing others' rights, we are declaring ourselves above others in our desires. We are the elite in the castle, saying that we are above the law simply because the peons outside can't get to us. Does that make it okay to copy others' files? No. It just makes it easy for you to get away with being less than a member of civilization.
(And tomorrow: I'm gonna eat cake!)
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Yeah...the DCMA tho sort of makes it real apparent to me that putting "real" locks on data that can effectively be reproduced via the real world equivalent of Star Trek "transporter" technology has far, FAR worse effects on the rights of others and the "peons" and "unwashed masses".
I did NOT always feel this way. It happened over time, really, when I actually got fed up with people "ripping me off" and decided it was "going to stop" with the next product we did. I decided it was going to exist as a physical boxed product in the really-for-real world.
The thing is...it wasn't a runaway hit. I have boxes and boxes of the thing still unsold...and THAT was when it hit me.
We're winning...for now. As a consumer and producer of e-products...I know things like DRM are just...wrong and hurtful to consumers...which is why really we've relaxed more and more the shackles on the software we make.
It seems to be a cycle in software devs...every 15 years we figure out copy protection or whatever doesn't work...then we get sucked back in
With ebooks its got to be the same. I mean you control the process, end-to-end...and it SUCKS to buy an eBook and not be able to read it on a Mac...or play an iTune on an Xbox.
I think consumers are driven by these shackles in the "peon" ranks nowadays much more so than back when I was a youngster because I don't think e-Product is fairly priced for them...especially when its restricted.
And if you ask around, there are some that will never pay for ANYTHING but many, many more that feel that content providers charge more for "less" with e-products.
They see it as the "art"...consumers see the product as the medium, because traditionally art is a patronage thing and medium is a traded good.
Something you cannot retrade is inherently worth less to the buyer.
Perhaps if e-things took this to heart (moreso with content than software products) than everyone would be better served.
The flaw of any business plan, one learns early, is that if you have to "educate the customer" for them to understand the value of your product, then you've really already failed