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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Robin Hood didn't just arbitrarily steal. He fought to protect people who could not protect themselves, or their livelihood, from what was essentially organized crime taking what they wanted and giving nothing back.
Your example essentially equates me with the "Sheriff of Nottingham," and suggests that I am trying to deprive people of their livelihood by stealing their property from them and giving them nothing in return... and that those DRM-fighting "Robin Hoods" are restoring justice by stealing my books from me and giving them to everyone else. Thanks a lot.
So, it is plainly obvious social DRM does not work any better than legal DRM. Does that mean we all throw up our hands and start stealing? Do we all just give up, and assume we are helpless against the mob? Open our doors, and let the Outsiders come in, take our goods, rape our women, and leave us for dead? Do we just abandon civilization as a doomed experiment?
Or... maybe... should we try to find a way to make a system that works?
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Social DRM does work it just doesn't work with a 100% guarantee. If you focus on the majority of the people that are honest and ignore the ones that will abuse it then you build the business model trusting the majority will pay.
I wasn't equating you to the Sheriff of Nottingham. My point was that you have to get society to work for you and not against you. When that happens you reduce the number of people that will abuse the system.
We have a system that works but it doesn't come with any guarantees.