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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I am perfectly willing to abandon copyright if a reasonable system is established to ensure that authors are fairly compensated for their work. Perhaps we need every download server to be registered so that we can track exactly how many unique downloads occur for every artistic work and then have a national arts tax (perhaps a surcharge to your monthly ISP bill) that goes to compensate artists based on how often their works are downloaded. That being said, I don't see too many people who want to abandon the free market for a state controlled system... at least not in the United States. Until we are willing to make that change, we will need some form of copyright and it will need to be enforced.
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Bill
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A forced monopoly marked can hardly be called "free", IMHO.
Apart from that, in the digital future, unless we'll all have a cop in every computer/device [and I think Americans won't like this kind of Stalinism], the "per-copy" reward model will be abandoned.
