Thread: Is digital copyright incompatible with technology and / or democracy?
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Old 05-28-2012, 02:20 PM   #95
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Amazon is doing this directly. All the data is on their servers. But how would you get all the data what anyone in the world downloads at any time via torrents or countless websites? Private sharing? Not to mention the fact that there are many different ISP's involved.

Unless you monitor all traffic centrally it could never be done, and such 100% monitoring wouldn't be practical in any case. Well if all traffic was being monitored, then we could just keep the current system and piracy would be eliminated. Everything could be traced, we could continue to use the much fairer system of paying for what we use and not paying for what others use.
Downloads don't have to be tracked. Without a copyright no book would be sold, but books would contain links back to the creator. There would be no reason for piracy.

So yes, copyright is incompatible with democracy.
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