Interesting thought experiment
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The most strict and vicious DRM still can't get around the dedicated copyist with a keyboard. Books can still be typed in manually. With just slightly less restrictions, they can be screencapped and OCR'd. And the only software DRM that hasn't been broken is a matter of market share; once a type of DRM reaches a certain level of popularity, it gets cracked.
We've no reason to believe this dynamic would change if the law allowed DRM to hide secret viruses. On the contrary, I'd expect dedicated hacker networks to create virtual sandboxes devoted to cracking DRM--especially if the DRM-cracking itself is entirely legal, and the only possible violation is a TOS/contract law issue.
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Not going to discuss DRM again on this forum ( Its kind of like discussing cartoons of The Prophet with Muslims). Just want to point out that with no copyright, there's no need for DRM . Can't Manage Digital Rights if there are no Digital Rights.
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I suspect recorded music would work much like it does now, where people pay for convenience rather than ownership. "Pay $1 to have this sent to your phone without bothering to get home, connect the USB, open the program & sign into the website" is okay for a lot of people.
Prices on CDs would drop, but could still be profitable if they contained a few things that can't be easily copied. Jewel case inserts with raised or metallic letters or signatures or special paper would make them worth buying, and everyone would know the CD itself was mostly a promo for the band.
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Woops , recorded music-what's that? No I take that back. There will be old recorded music in people's record collections-that's it.CDs- for what? Since there won't be record companies, the only CDs produced will be blank CDs . Pre-recorded music CDs will be pointless. Radio and streaming music might continue- but musicians cant make much money out of them, so fewer musicians . The Cynical Musician pretty much laid out the economics of being an independent musician in todays world and it aint pretty
CYNICAL MUSICIAN
In a no copyright world, its worse.
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Could TV/Cable survive if it were legal for anyone to copy & share (and broadcast over the internet) the commercial-free version? What would prevent using local community-access channels from just scheduling popular movies, which would be much more popular than the Super Recycling Tricks show?
Movie theatres, I think, could survive just fine with very minor shifts. They've got something that end-users don't: extremely expensive hardware. If you want to see a movie on a 50' wide screen, you need to buy a ticket. Theatres would need to refocus their ads for "watch movies on big screen!" rather than "see the latest releases before anyone else has them!"--because they'd be available digitally almost immediately.
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Don't think movie theaters could survive on that model-you need a minimum number of patrons, so they're done, along with cable TV. You may have 1 movie theater per city-playing reruns. Expensive new Avatar-type films-fuhgedhaboutit!!
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I suspect that the only way authors could count on making money if copyright were eliminated would be a return to patronage, and attempting to restrict actual copies from anyone who hadn't paid for access. (Which, gee, is what the Agency 6 do with their ebooks.) Tiny print runs with high costs, subscription clubs with strict contract language that mean "if you share this with someone who hasn't paid, you owe the author/distributor a year's income." Pbooks with tracking chips. Streamed ebooks that you can only read through once per payment.
I don't want copyright gone; I just want it returned to something like the 28+28 system. Bring back a way for content to fall into the public domain if nobody's paying attention to it.
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Cosign this.
I think a typical problem of the no- copyright set is that they take creators for granted. They think creators are our bitches, who MUST continue putting out for us, no matter how much we beat them .They'll work for art, or for free, or for charity, but they'll just keep performing, no matter what.WRONG.
Its pretty much an iron law of economics that if you want good stuff and more stuff, you're going to have to provide the financial incentives for someone to create that stuff. The founding fathers understood this, which is why its in Constitution. They didn't get everything right, but this is one they did get right.