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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
Something tells me that the average 13+ year olds decision to circumvent paying for music has very little to nothing to do with any philosophical differences they may have with the RIAA - or anyone else for that matter.
They download free movies and music because it’s easy and its free.
But again, even if were to do away with the middleman, and artists sell music, books, etc, directly to the public, that does very little to stop or lessen the flow of copyrighted materials.
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Some people will always violate copyright. What can be done to minimize it without punishing law abiding customers as well? For example, one of the things that has stopped me from buying new books has been DRM. I have a Sony Reader, so I'm stuck with either the LRX format or the epub format with Adobe's DRM. If I choose to switch to say a Kindle in a couple years, I'm screwed.
So far I simply have been reading public domain works, and works released for free under creative commons. I'm also planning on buying books from Baen in the future since they don't have DRM.