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Originally Posted by narve
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.
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We don't seem to have an issue with piracy when the content isn't protected with DRM.
Also, the current copyright law is unfair to the public and the DMCA effectively gives the Content Cartel the power to change copyright law.
Most people obey laws not because of the punishment for breaking those laws. They obey laws because they believe that the law is right. When most people believe that the law is wrong, they do not obey it. Which is what we are seeing today.
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Originally Posted by narve
Jęd's alternative 4 is a good one, and is widely used today  |
His alternative 4 is my alternative 2. It doesn't work because the "speed bump" of DRM makes people disrecpect copyright even more and feel no guilt in pirating the work. Indeed, DRM makes law-abiding people commit crimes just to exercise their fair use rights under copyright.