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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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.
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Not that I don't like your reasoning, but to be fair, #1 should be revised to:
1. Stay with the current capitalistic market - but trust your customers, dump DRM, and use Copyright law to protect the content, and lose alot to piracy/copyright law circumvention.
Copyright law circumvention _could_ be reduced if the products were looked upon as fair and square and the price was low enough. But don't count on it... at the best assuming so is questionable. Personally I think people will pirate anyway, at least if the price is high.
Jęd's alternative 4 is a good one, and is widely used today
