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Originally Posted by sirbruce
No, the thesis was the copyrights for books were no longer technologically feasible, so authors should switch to other ways of generating revenues from readers who want to support them but don't want to pay them directly for ebooks (or don't want to pay enough). The prime suggestion was t-shirts; I was pointing out that t-shirts would one day be just as vulnerable to the same easy technological piracy. Your screen shot idea is more akin to using photocopiers to copy books today; not equivalent in terms of ease and convenience.
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Well then, once this infinitely shareable t-shirt becomes available, we would again have to reassess and find new ways to make money, or give up the idea of monetary recompense altogether in favour of something else. What that something else is, I''m not exactly sure at this point in time.