Thread: The Logic Of Copyright
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:38 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by avantman42 View Post
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.
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Can you clarify this? Because to me it looks very much like your making an argument for how DRM exists because of copyright. Maybe if you provide examples of how DRM would exist without copyright?
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if Copyright was done away with right now, the publishers would do all they could to make it more difficult to copy, since they would have nothing to protect their investments otherwise.
I came to clarify my point, but Hellmark has said pretty much what I intended to
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