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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Mrkai, I do not believe we are quite as unprepared as you imagine. This is not different than other IP (intellectual property) questions being debated in EVERY high-tech industry (e.g. the cell design of a complex semiconductor can be pirated 100% at no "cost" to the inventor). We just need to update our laws and practices to modernize our archaic systems of patent and copyright.
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Right, but every consumer of a semiconductor can't instantly produce one "out of thin air".
Design copyrights can be protected because of manufacturing...and of course forgery and whatnot are covered here as well.
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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Down the road I believe these issues will settle out through centralized computing. When our internet is everywhere and fast enough there will not be a real need to "own" digital objects locally. I believe we will be on a permanent rental basis soon enough. But I could be wrong.
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I personally have serious "moral" issues with this scheme...but I'm not worried about it, as so far, the market has responded...appropriately...to all schemes so far in this regard.
They have failed. Customers like to "own" certain kinds of products. All attempts so far at hamstringing consumers via "industry serving" (as opposed to customer serving) consumer electronics have failed. I expect this trend to continue.
I have a lot of associates in the software biz that seem to look towards a scenario like that, but when I ask THEM if THEY would want to be fettered in such a way, almost all of them reply "well, no"...some more reluctantly than others
The Kindle seems to be the book world's attempt at a Divx player. We'll see how it goes
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Originally Posted by Penforhire
We still brag about the brand of PC box we own, when it really should be an appliance like a toaster.
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Well, you won't be able to pull this off with a general computing device. Radio and TV are not the same in the mind of consumers (and really, any solution that does not cater to THEIR wants and needs is a proven recipe for failure) as "cds" or "records" and "dvds".
You would essentially have to offer a Cable-TV like model for all of computing...with the value that consumers believe exist for such a thing.
People tried this with software and content, too. The market doesn't like it.
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Does anyone brag about their brand of toaster?
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I don't have a toaster...but you'd have to beat me to get me away fom my Kitchen Aid stand mixer...