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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
I felt more optimistic before the ibooks stab in the back. Once Apple aligned itself with publishers against Amazon, they set back drm free days by quite a lot. When Apple ended music DRM, they did so from a position of near retail monopoly. (...)
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Yeah, these events have been a major setback. But there are always plenty of bumps on the road.
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
I do. I love vanilla copyright, wouldn't want to be a reader in world without it. Just wanted to weigh in as a DRM-hater who loves copyright. Lots of IP isn't perfectly calibrated. The patent system strikes me as completely broken right now, but I wouldn't want to get rid of patents, just re-calibrate.
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I don't
love copyright, but I do think its necessary (even today). I know there are radicals around here who think that all books should be free, but I'm not one of them.
However, current copyright law is too restrictive: death + 70 is not optimal as far as incentives to create content go. Even death + 50 is way too much, IMHO.
Anyway, copyrights are most effective in preventing the illegal
commercial distribution of protected works. This is a despicable act, and should be subject to harsh punishment. (But even here, the digital world makes enforcement nigh impossible:
ebook content farms are a
nasty scam, and also a thriving business model).
As for patents, I do want to get rid of software patents. They stand in the way of a lot of innovations, and most are maddeningly vague.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Stronger DRM combined with viewing methods that are harder to extract content from will indeed cut down on the number of mid-list relatively unknown authors' works being thrown around the web. I don't see any indication that this will increase their sales, rather than just making them even more obscure than they are now.
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+1.