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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Copyright is price fixing. I would suggest going further, and working to end copyright by whatever means necessary, mostly this will involve just reading whatever you want.
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While the goal itself is commendable, I'll still respectfully disagree
1. Copyright is about alot more than price.
2. To improve or replace the system, you need tangible realistic alternatives that contains an incentment to innovate, a way of ensuring the integrity of artistic works, that discerns between the subjective value of works and finally which rewards content creators, creating an incentment to produce.
Unless your an anarchist, you can't really replace 2, without ensuring those factors are taken care of, since such drastic changes will be hard to affect in an established industry, which is why I am not completely opposed to some of the aspects of copyright on a personal level (while thinking its important to fight it on a political level). I personally feel that the most important thing is to affect changes.
The fact that technical innovation has made it easy to rampantly copy provides one incentment for companies to innovate (unfortunately they are currently wasting that chance by sticking to their guns and simply becoming more restrictive). This is a perfect opportunity for them to explore how they can provide added value. Create an eco system that allows you to ask questions to the original author on a forum, or other things relevant for the fanbase, release special leatherbound editions. There's many things you can do, where instead of combating the profiliation of your work, which is inevitable regardless, by making your work more useless, you can add value and actually benefit the more, the more users it reaches.
The other incentment needs to come from us users. By rewarding business models that rewards authors in a more direct sense and provide an open way of obtaining content. By fighting copyright itself and vote against those of our representatives not representing our interests, since that's really the only way we'll ever stop OUR politicians from extending copyrights every time a Disney copyright is about to run out. (said statement may not be factually correct, but just used as an example for how the industry dictates the terms rather than us).