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Originally Posted by Moejoe
And this 'requirement' of payment how will you enforce it in a digital age? With DRM? How? It's impossible to apply a scarcity model to an abundantly reproduceable object. If for no other reason, that is why copyright is useless. Copyright only works with physical objects, not the digital.
/you are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Firstly, just out of curiosity, what does that final line mean? Honestly, I can't work it out.
As for the rest, frankly it's not my concern how they will enforce it. People will get around whatever they come up with anyway I grant you that. It doesn't even matter if the item is priced reasonably, those that do not want to pay, simply wont. Furthermore, as this attitude of "I can get it for free so that gives me the right to get it for free" becomes more and more accepted, it logically follows that less and less people will pay anything at all for what they want.
What interests me is why so many people seem to think artists should have no control or rights over what they create? That the audience should have total and sole rights? Why do so many people feel they have the right to enjoy the labours of artists for free but they certainly don't want to work for their own boss for free?
Why should there even be the thought of "how do we force people to respect the rights of the creator"? Why don't people simply respect those rights as a matter of course?
Cheers,
PKFFW
P.S: This is really just a philosophical musing before bed rather than any sort of argument so don't feel the need to reply if you don't want to.