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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Not these specific laws, maybe, but there are constant pushes by the entertainment lobbies to get laws passed that DO prevent any and all types of copying for any purposes whatsoever. For instance, attempts to end the "fair use" doctrine: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08...doch-vows.html
and attempts to close the "analog hole" with restrictions built into HDMI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ba...ent_Protection
The various entertainment industries very much want not only control over every single viewing/listening/reading of their work, they want to be able to TRACK every use. Such as when Circuit City attempted to kill DVD with DIVX:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
The powers-that-be in the entertainment industry are Orwellian thugs. And no number of laws and filters are going to keep their obsolete business model of artificial scarcity alive.
I'm not claiming that I know what will replace their artificial scarcity, futile copy-locking model. I don't know how content creators will manage to make money in the future. But I do know that the RIAA, MPAA, and their pet politicians will-- in the long term-- fail, dry up, and blow away. |
There is no "artificial scarcity", the problem we have is exactly the opposite. Call it "artificial abundance". The only "natural" copies are the copies legally issued by the rights holders. An item can be easily recreated by people who have no right to do so, thus artificially creating a possible abundance that should not exist. And the best way forward would be a general consensus that creative people need to eat, too. Some people will never pay and really don't care about the items in question, they would not buy the music/books/DVDs even if they could only be obtained by paying and thus they don't figure in this equation.
If even the creative industries have no way to make money, then it is lights out for the western world, all jobs that are left for will be low paying manual labor. Almost all physical production is in Asia already, anyway.