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Originally Posted by acidzebra
Well that is exactly the point, isn't it? Who knows? It is uncharted territory. All that is obvious is that the old methods of control and enforcement are failing in the digital age, and all the more reason to experiment and not to cling to the old ways.
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Possibly they are failing to some degree, but to some degree they always have failed, and there were always "special cases" where the results of copyright law just got so against common sense and moral everone but some of the most cunning publishers get a red head when hearing it like:
As said before not being able to borrow your VCR recorded broadcast to your friend.
Special case that hit the newspapers some years before, a publishers going against the boy scouts, because they not only sang copyprotected songs at the fireplace, they even performed them.. The allegation were dropped due to hugh bad press.
Or as some news pointed out in that debatte about the boy scouts, the song "happy birthday" is too copyprotected, so you might be very wary when and under which audience you perform it. (And yes, when you do an amateur movie for public performance you may definetly not sing happy birthday in that movie...)
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However I can fully understand the current industry trying to clutch to the old system, altough the "specialcases" in the grand total it did work okay, didn't it? And they the old schemes are not "failing" by themselves, all you currently see are efforts to keep this schemes in place, and to some degree it can work...
I think its troublesome to tear down a system because its old, without having any possible suggestion how another one could work. Lets point one out, and maybe you can get more followers. But just actively destroying without having a working replacement? I dunno...