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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Not necessarily, no. When stated in a sarcastic reply that is little more than "Oh yeah? Says you!" without making a constructive point...
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The sarcasm was free, I don't see how you can construct it as a personal attack but whatever, the point was that DRM has been an abject failure, both in terms of technical execution and social acceptance.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Unfortunately, we also have a situation where people believe that an electronic file downloaded from the internet should cost NO money... which means anyone who charges even a dime for a file becomes "the enemy."
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You are "the enemy" not because you want to be paid for your creation - you are "the enemy" because you still think DRM and "exclusive content/vendor lock-in" are a swell ideas. You are "the enemy" because you speak of piracy in dramatic, even hysterical terms when nobody cares about your precious creations. You are "the enemy" because you apparently think everybody is out to rip you off. You are the "enemy" because you insist on building a digital simulation of an early 20th-century copyright economy, based on scarcity and with distinct limits between broadcasting/transferring data and unit sales. You are "the enemy" because in the interest of making a buck, you would trigger an escalation of technology regulations running out of control and ruining civil liberties. But mostly, you are "the enemy" because that is the position you take.
There's your personal attack. If you are going to accuse me of attacking you, we might as well go there. The Genie is out of the bottle, Steve, and trying to sit on your content until people pay up is not going to work any longer. There is a lot of goodwill towards authors/content creators out there, instead of treating your customers as "the enemy" you should try to build on that. But whatever, you dismiss everyone who is critical of the failing status quo as an impractical dreamer, utopianist, or something like it. I doubt anything we say could ever penetrate that thick head of yours.