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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
And it does place a big burden on sellers/buyers to make sure product is not illegally reproduced or distibuted. That will be a b***h to pull off, in this digital era, but no one said life was easy.
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I agree it would be difficult. But it would bring back a large group of people
into the IP system who turn to piracy thru frustration with the current reality. And that would dramatically marginalize the remainder of pirates, cutting off their moral standing to the rest of IP consumers. But this can only be done in a context that acknowledges consumers needs, not by just pounding them with a bigger club, because they now have a club of their own to pound back with. (Sort of like the 1850's comment - The Lord God made men big and small, but Mr. Colt made them all equal.)
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Can anyone argue that copyright and patent systems do not produce more and faster creation and innovation... or that we would be better off without such increased creation and innovation?
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As I have said earlier, I believe in copyright. It's just that copyright as it currently stands is being destroyed by technology, whether I like it or not.
Unforunately, there are too many big power blocks hopelessly tied to the status quo, with too much to lose, for me to be optimistic anything will change.