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Originally Posted by markbot
DRM free media with users who support and defend copyright will never happen because of human nature. Look at Asia...probably 90% of music is stolen...if not more.
If stealing cannot be detected and there is no threat of punishment of any kind....legal or social...people will steal. In classical criminology this is the hedonistic calculus. But it gets worse since there is actually a social acceptance and encouragement of stealing music. Books will not be far behind if there is no DRM.
I would not like to destroy the intellectual capital of future generations just so we can transfer a book from a sony reader to a kindle, and vice versa.
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And once more for the hard of understanding:
COPYING != STEALING
SHARING != THEFT
EDIT: And FYI China and vast swathes of Asia have a rich cultural heritage born FROM the notion of outright copying, from master to student and on. The greatest honour was for a master to be copied by a student as closely as possible. The notion of copyright is not universal.