Thread: The Logic Of Copyright
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Old 05-13-2011, 04:37 AM   #75
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Originally Posted by Leyor View Post
Copyright protection directly hurts the consumers/users/fans.
Copyright allows groups such as the RIAA to sue common people insane amounts for trivial infringements. It's responsible for DRM which reduces the user experience significantly.
Copyright is not responsible for DRM. If copyright was abolished, DRM could (and probably would) still exist. DRM is used to enforce copyright, but copyright isn't necessary for DRM to exist. Maybe if copyright hadn't existed in the first place no-one would have invented DRM, but if copyright had never existed, we'd be living in a much different place and many things would be different.

I'm not a fan of DRM, and I do think that the current implementation of copyright is broken, but I'd like to see it changed rather than abolished.
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