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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You're both trying to fit a new technological world back into the old mold. Just doing it differently.
It's like trying to discuss how to return to medieval chivalry twenty years after cannons have started blasting castles into rubble, and blowing knight out of their saddles....
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I'm not advocating the old mold at all Ralph. I'm specifically saying that the new format - the new technology - can't be managed in the same way as the old. The current attempts at DRM are a stab by the publishers at maintaining that old methodology.
I'm not saying we need need the same thing, but I am saying that in order for society to benefit from the creativity of individuals there must be some methodology in place to allow that creative individual to benefit (i.e. make a living) from their work. That is the point of Copyright and that is the reason for implementing DRM to protect the creative property. Without that methodology in place the products of creativity which potentially benefit all of us will languish.