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Originally Posted by elcreative
You're still missing my point... if the BUYER wants to turn a creative object into s**t to use it then that's fine but it is not fine to repurpose it into another format and pass that on... giving the physical object away is fine, it was purchased and you can give it away, set fire to it or use it for compost but putting it into another format it wasn't designed for and passing that onto someone else is not fine... and metaphors have nothing to do with it... if you buy the object that doesn't give you the right to photocopy it and sell the photocopies or give them away so it is with converting it to a digital format...
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At this point, right or wrong isn't really relevant. If you don't provide it in a format people want, then someone
will make their own and give it away to anyone else who wants it.
The days when you could control what format your work goes in are long gone and they are never coming back. The Harry Potter woman tried it, Ray Bradbury tried it, DC and Marvel comics tried it, even the music and film industries tried it, but they all had to cave in and provide what people want in the end. All they achieved by refusing from the start was let an entire generation grow up getting used to downloading everything for free.