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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Digital data replicators are here, and here to stay. Attempts to restrict this by technological means are doomed to failure.
But I do not think that this means that authors and other creators of digital data are doomed to low to zero income as their work is reproduced by everyone for free. Enough people are willing to pay for (convenient, high quality, reasonably priced) digital work to support authors and other content creators.
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You don't get much more inconsistent and contradictory as this...
The point is, creating a system that prevents
the vast majority of people from bothering to break it is
all you need to be successful. It doesn't have to be perfect, nor is its defeat at one point equal to being "doomed to failure." This isn't an all or nothing deal.
And at any rate, all of this is
Take it back to the piracy thread, there are other matters to discuss here. Thanks.