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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The day that happens, the train will no longer have a profitable base, and it will stop running, leaving honest and dishonest people stuck.
Or they will beef up security and place guards on every train entrance, with the authority to arrest on sight any illegal boarders.
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the train will no longer have a profitable base, and it will stop running, leaving honest and dishonest people stuck.
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Will not happen. Why? Because railway service will not benefit at all.
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Or they will beef up security and place guards on every train entrance, with the authority to arrest on sight any illegal boarders
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As long as the security measures do not pose any problems to honest customers...who cares?
And here we are back to what you were saying: tracking system , watermarks etc. No one said it would be wrong. What is wrong is - DRM as we have today. It is horrible and punish only honest guys.
If we go back to train - they increase security and every time you travel, you will have to wait in a long queue for them to check every single person before letting them in. Will you keep on using the service? Most likely not. You will look for alternatives.
Some people will still use it but railway service will loose.
Just like it happens to movie and music industries today.
Maybe 50 years ago when you had a choise of only 1-2, maybe 3 different types of entertaiment then you would cling to whatever you have no matter what. Today? You have so many alternatives that if one thing doesn't work you just walk away and try something else.