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Originally Posted by slayda
I imagine that Gutenberg was criticized for making books "so easy to copy".
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Indeed. Several restrictions have been made, like the Printer Guilds.
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Originally Posted by slayda
I predict that authors who "go with the flow" of today's changes will also thrive.
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Agree. That's precisely my point.
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Originally Posted by Robert Marquard
Hilarious. Copyright is a recent development. By your logic in all the centuries before copyright was invented there must have been no cultural production at all. I think we will see the content industry adapt and be content with the earnings from legal paid downloads. The authors will not stop producing works.
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Sure copyright is a recent development, created when the printing press allowed us to easily copy works. Author's rights, however, exist since humans produce creative works. More than 5.000 years ago, architects were already payed to design monuments.
Of course in all the centuries before copyright was invented there was cultural production. Question is: after it was invented, more people decided to produce cultural works looking towards the profit. If copyright system fails, sure some authors will still write. The same way if a global electric black-out started tomorrow some human beings would still survive. Of course, they'd be back to the Dark Ages...