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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Why should all things be thrown out? The principles of economics do not change; all that has changed, in this digital era, is that the supply of a work is insanely abundant once the original has been created. Try as people might to enforce artificial scarcity with such things as DRM, those can and will be defeated by individuals of enough inclination and/or skill, who then proceed to distribute the "unlocked" work to everyone else.
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Change or not change I don't really care.
Why I bring it up is because I think it is very hypocritcal for people to be spouting off about how the "old ways" don't work........authors should move with the times man, publishers are big greedy corporate vampires draining every cent from customers, self-publishing is the way of the future, no barriers between creator and audience, adapt or die etc etc..............and then in the next breath use the "old way" of supply and demand in order to support their argument that digital media has zero value.
If the "old ways" don't work in the digital era then don't use the "old way" of supply and demand as the determining factor in establishing value.
Cheers,
PKFFW