[QUOTE=Steven Lyle Jordan;1935680]
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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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Books first. Then beer. There are priorities, you know...
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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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Actually, what we need is a psychologist.
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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.
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That's my point. It is the copyright law that NOW is the problem, since it does not "fit" the digital environment. It no longer entirely makes sense.
For a law to be generally observed, it has to be generally regarded as a reasonable & proper law. Enforcement has a role (a small one, in my view) but laws work when the great majority of people think they make sense.
People do not exist for the sake of the law. The law exists for the sake of the people. When you find yourself having to rely on enforcement to get ordinary people to obey your law, something is wrong with your law.