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Originally Posted by RWood
rlauzon: I see in your utopian plans a call for more and larger government that will settle on one and only one form of eBook for everyone so that they can enforce the copyright protections-restrictions-payments that propose. This is having once central authority deciding what is best for us. They (as all government agencies) will extend their power to allow only the books they agree with.
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You misunderstood my message. It was simply an idea and, yes, has many, many problems.
The point was that there were 3 alternatives (that I could see):
1. Stay with the current capitalistic market - but trust your customers, dump DRM, and use Copyright law to protect the content.
2. Stay with the current capitalistic market - but treat your customers as criminals, use DRM and lose alot to piracy.
3. Move to a communistic market type (like my idea).
All 3 alternatives have issues. The question is which one has fewer issues.
You've accurately pointed out some of the issues for alterative #3. We have #2 today and it doesn't work well.