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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
My point is that there is no way to provide an overriding force to stop I.P. piracy. It has become a matter of personal choice, for good or ill.
Technology created I.P., technology is now killing it.
(And it's only going to get worse. As 3-D printers get better, faster, cheaper, and more available, it's going to hit the production of analog goods as well.)
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This is a classical statement of what's called Digital Determinism. Chris Ruen comments on it :
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A sentiment we have all heard or entertained post-Napster is that “you can’t fight technology” — representative of what I call Digital Determinism. That attitude is intellectually passive, morally lazy and ultimately self-destructive because it puts the entirely imaginary interests of “technology” above our own; much as Stalin put the abstract interests of the State above the immediate interests of people, rationalizing that the means of mass slaughter justified the ends of modernization or national greatness.
Digital Determinism leads us toward believing that humans must adapt to the rights of technology, not the other way around. Thus, rights holders are seen by Determinists as primarily responsible for “innovation” in response to FreeLoading; and protecting copyright is portrayed as an effort by cigar-chomping Hollywood villains to preserve their profits.
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That whole post is worth reading.