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Originally Posted by stonetools
Er, no I don't. I think its at best a necessary evil. Its you lot who are convinced that it is the spawn of Satan and can't possibly be justified, no matter what. I note that neither you or anyone else has propsed a solution, except by saying "It won't be that bad." This is unconvincing . A look at falling music industry revenues shows it can be that bad.
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You keep using this argument, when it's been proven that the music industry is having problems converting to
digital... which is not at all the same as DRM.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
I do think that the publishers shot themselves in the foot by banging on about piracy, when large scale casual sharing is the real danger. Maybe there is no diplomatic way to talk about large scale casual sharing is the real danger, but they lost credibility among the digerati by not being upfront about it.
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Because lord knows that casual sharing is a completely new scenario. I'm
shocked to learn this never happened with pbooks. I'm also surprised the used bookstore didn't kill publishing...
Of course, when you say "large scale", you're really talking about pirating at that point, not "casual sharing".