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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Can you name any industry where the rights of the person who want's something are put before the rights of the person who owns it?
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I think you are looking at what I said in the wrong way, perhaps because you are suffering from the bamboozlement that I mentioned.
I am not talking about giving away rights, I am talking about the ill considered focus on rights management being the predominant part of the outdated (by centuries) market model rights holders are using that blinkers them to other models that win by focussing on the wants of customers.
Other industries with rights over their products, even when easily copied, to be successful focus from the customers' perspective, so making it more sensible to buy the product rather than to copy or make oneself. Then there is the even harder case for a product producer of having an easily copied product over which there is no possibility of rights protection providing the comfort of a legal barrier to potential customers copying or making their own instead.
Take, for example, apple pies. There is no rights management to stop them being made by anyone, they are very easy to make and at one time everyone made their own. Anyone with even little understanding of marketing knows why pie manufacturers have won the market through product pricing, ease of access, quality, etc. even without the possibility of rights protection. OK there is some leakage, some people still make their own, but pie manufacturers do not take the approach of how can we prevent them from doing so, they take the approach of how can they win them away from making them.
Music rights holders (being an electronic product easily copied like eBooks), who focussed heavily on DRM to protect their market, are slowly adapting by changing their focus. They are now at the stage where their customers can purchase the tracks they want cheaply, of reasonable quality (that improving), conveniently (no special software or device needed to purchase and use the product), and no DRM (or if there is there is the option to cheaply buy out of that and make a copy to portable media). Of course artists have had to adapt a little too, some find that they now have to tour rather than sit in a studio (or basement
) but such need for change comes to all professions over time so no need for them to grumble.
I want to leave it at that (as I said before
) as there are some here who take any suggestion of there being an alternative way as just being a threat to rights holders and get emotive. I take it that they buy books, so there is one basis for my previous use of the word bamboozled.