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Originally Posted by HansTWN
But if you turn it around and ask "do you think authors and all those involved in the book publishing and book selling industries should work for free" then the answer would turn out to be very different.
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Sure. And then you look at traffic trends on the darknet and realise that what they're telling you and what they're doing are two very different things.
Video is down since legal streaming services took off, but everything else continues to rise. There might just be a lesson there...
There needs to be a choice, though. Either the market works, and companies have to take a case-by-case approach to stamping out unauthorised copying, or the market has failed and there needs to be a blanket licence. Arguing that the market has failed, but there needs to be more restrictions on customers as big companies are at the moment, is ridonculous. The market can only perform worse under those conditions.
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Originally Posted by Kennyc
I'm debating whether to start a topic comparing and contrasting Water Rights with copyrights. There are some interesting similarities
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And of course, the key difference that you're comparing a scarce with a non-scarce resource. Still.