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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I have heard the term, what I mean is that it is a misnomer created by some people to justify certain behaviors.
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It is not a misnomer-- it is a correct definition. ANYTHING that can be produced in arbitrarily high quantities, but isn't, for market reasons, is
by definition "artificially scarce." You may not like that. That may not fit your politics. But that is what "artificial scarcity" means.
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What YOU are suggesting is stifling creativity and innovation.
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Western society has to move forward and live off new ideas, and the only way to do it is to protect those ideas, not a free for all where everybody loses -- including you and me.
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And I'm of the opinion that excessive length and strength of copyrights and patents on not only products but also concepts are what stifle creativity and innovation. There will always be people wanting to make money. If people were able to copy car designs (as you mentioned in material I didn't quote) then the end result would be car designers constantly trying to innovate to make their cars even more betterer than their competitor's copy of their design, to draw a few more sales until the
next round of copying. It would be a driving force behind innovation, not a stifler.
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You might call it Google's vision, every second page of every ebook is an ad. Or a link to some Google service. And the music on your mp3 stops every 20 secs for an ad. That could very well become the brave new world you are helping to bring about.
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Not a problem-- it'll just drive even more people to pirated versions, as there will always be people willing to put their time and effort into defeating DRM and stripping ads and limitations. So, like always, DRM and copy protection and ads will only hurt the people paying for the content, while the pirates have the better version.