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Originally Posted by kennyc
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.
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But you are advocating the old mold. Copyright was self-enforcing when it took lots and lots of capital to make a copy of a product as cheaply as the copyright owner could. So no one would risk the capital to make copies. Now anybody can do it, for peanuts. Any way to compensate authors has to accept that fact, and work with it. Maybe there's no answer, I don't know. But I do know you can't stuff the trumpet note back into the trumpet.