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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
As far as whether or not I can stop people from taking my books... actually, I can. I just stop writing them.
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If I buy one copy of your book, and I read it to my 10 children when I put them to bed, are they thieves?
If I buy one single copy of your book and I install it on my iLiad AND on my wife's cybook, is she a thief?
If I learn it by heart and I repeat it to 50 of my relatives, am I stealing?
If I read it 12 times, am I taking something from you?
You don't have to stop people from taking your books!
You have to be paid for your work.
After you're paid, the more people take the book, the better for them and for you.
You can get more money from paper, from audio cassettes, from movie theaters. But nor from every single copy of a file. That's
unfair.
Unless you actually go at reader's home and copy that file typing it in a word processor....
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
That is not "my proposed method." I have said repeatedly that present DRM systems may not work, but that others (so far undeveloped) could. I never indicated that they have to be so extreme as to be "draconian"... you just make the automatic assumption that any DRM system is draconian. You continue to suggest that any even infinitestimal amount of "control" is Big Brother Incarnate, which is a clear over-reaction. You argue for a Utopia of free goods and sanctioned thievery. Good luck with that.
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In my proposed method, a writer is
fairly paid for the work, people pay access to content, no matter how many copies they do and spread.
Is it possible? Yes.
Will it stop piracy? No, it will reduce it at a small fraction of what it is now.
Will publishers increase their income? Definitely not.
Will authors be billionaires? Not at all.
The last two points are where the system will fail in the real world. Authors and Publisher actually prefer to point a gun at the customers head rather than reduce their income to a
fair amount.
