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Originally Posted by sebastien
So in order to make sure that a small fraction of the population can make a living as artist, we will ask ISP, law maker, police, the whole judiciary system and the train company from a few threads up, to spend millions of dollars in technologies and staff (with pension mind you) to make sure that the content created by a few is not illegally copied and to collect a few extra cent that the artist will probably never see in the end...
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So before we spent all our effort on putting DRM, tracking device, and other magical technologies, which btw would not solve the issue at hand since most pirated book are OCRed, why not spend our effort on this forum in finding a new business model that would make sure that the writer/artist can still make a decent living out of their art and continue to benefit society as a whole?
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Not sure who you are responding to here, sebastien. My goal in my previous post is to use public social pressure to reinforce one of the few business models that is working (so far) at producing ebooks for us to read. I really believe that social pressure works well enough, if we actually apply it.
Nekokami: I usually don't sink to name calling either, but really... Baen has bent over backwards to make it easy to get their stuff without "stealing" or copyright violation. What other publisher have you heard of who will offer a reduced price to the less-well-advantaged? Quite aside from free e-copies of the Grantville Gazettes and JBU electronic magazines for any library or school. And the free CDs. And...
Also, please note, the name calling and disapproval are
conditional. Kajti might be downloading entirely legally (see the free CDs, etc.), in which case no complaint. It's only in the "not the free stuff" case that I would think public disapproval is in order.
Kajti: So which is it? The legitimately free stuff? Or the non-free stuff? Have you earned my harsh words, or were you just careless in your description?
Xenophon