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Originally Posted by Harmon
Not to worry. People wrote books before copyright, and they will write them if copyright dies. Particularly if I promise them some of my beer.
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IOW, payment for services. What a wise concept. Provided they don't just steal your beer and not give you any books, of course...
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Originally Posted by Harmon
But the vast majority of people obey the laws without enforcement entering into the equation. Enforcement only works at the margins. When a significant number of people decide to stop observing the law, enforcement stops working, and indeed, becomes dysfunctional, as witness our drug laws.
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People obey laws because they don't want to be punished for disobeying them. (That's right... you're a lawyer, not a sociologist.)
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Originally Posted by Harmon
See, I think that this situation exists because of the copyright laws we have.
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Nope; before the digital era, effectively no one was complaining about copyright laws. It was the creation of the digital era, and the lawlessness that has followed, that prompted all of this grief.