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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.
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I'll give you the benefit of the doubt of English not being your first language leading to you not knowing what "artificial scarcity" is. Give the Wikipedia entry a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity
ALL digital media has the potential of being copied to every person on the planet (who has a computer or other capable playback device) with a marginal cost per copy of essentially zero. The creators of the content try to restrict that happening by the means of encryption, threats of prosecution, and "social engineering" like this classic cluelessly lame video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
and this less well know but equally cluelessly lame sequel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk
Computer media is the
perfect example of artificial scarcity.
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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.
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So? A fundamental shift came to human society when we went from hunter-gatherers to farmers. Another one came when we developed large-scale, assembly-line industrialization. Entire ways of looking at the world changed. We adapted, and moved on. We are in the midst of another fundamental shift in society. And no number of sabots thrown into the machinery will stop it. And generations from now, the only ones morning the buggy-whip makers will be elderly former buggy-whip makers.