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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
It's also not better to cry "I want my books, and I deserve to get them free."
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You're right 100%.
But I see thousands of people actually getting them for free, not crying.
And I see also that there's no way to stop them without hurting democracy.
And honestly, that's what I fear most.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
And consumers have to accept a new reality: If good producers feel they will not be compensated for their work, they'll stop producing; and there will be less quality product available on the market. Consumers will also have to accept that most of the remaining product will be of noticeably lesser quality than professionally-produced content.
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Again, you're right.
What I'm saying is: if corporations agree to a little loss of income, AND consumer agree to a fair compensation, with a new efficient business model, nobody will be forced to stop production or to quit reading.
The pay-per-copy model cannot work in a system where copies can be produced effortlessly, endlessly and at virtually no cost. it's good for paper books, it's a failure for e-books.
And the I-disconnect-you-if-you-give-your-book-to-your-wife Sarkozy model, is an unbalanced one.
To spend millions for suing the Pirate Bay won't lead us nowhere.
The only way to build a system that works is to come to an agreement: the ones who are getting content for free have to agree to pay for it, and the ones who are getting paid (and "robbed", like they say) have to agree to earn less that they are now. If not, it's just the same old story: the one with the biggest gun gets it all.
There are three basic principles:
1. There has to be a limit to the earnings for the single author/creator
2. Every user of the content have to pay for access that content
3. Electronic digital editions cannot be paid per copy; hardcopies (CD, DVD, pbook, LP, whatever...) can be sold like they are now.
If creators don't want to agree with point 1 (which is compatible with a sort of meritocracy) like I suppose, then there's no way users will agree to point 2 (there will always be the "pirates", or just schoolboys sharing music and books between them).
A "pay-per-copy" enforced with weapons, like they're trying to do now, is a lose-lose situation. And eventually it'll destroy every good production, like you're saying.
