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Originally Posted by Moejoe
The only way you can protect copyright in a digital age is to uninvent the digital and retard all progress made to this point. If anything, copyright is becoming less and less important to the wider culture. Not only do I assume that there won't be a way to protect copyright, I'll actively work towards solutions that break said protections at every level.
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That's actually a narrow vision of "progress." There are a number of ways that technology could give us answers to digital document security, if the right people decide it needs to be done.
I'm curious: Exactly why to you believe digital document security is so evil that it must be prevented at all costs?
And as an aside: If you do not want to profit from your own work, how will you feel about those who take your work, assume full credit for it, and profit from it? This, of course, is what copyright is all about, and why those who would like to achieve some profit off of their own work tend to support it. Why should creators not have the opportunity to profit from their work, if others can profit as well?
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Originally Posted by Iphinome
I think it would require people having a reason why they should respect copyright. In the past copyright was a social quid pro quo, right now its being used as cudgel. Digital lockdowns, demands, shrink wrap licences, long terms, no more fair use if there's drm, drm in and of itself, massive statutory damages. The system is broken, unworthy of protection it the current form.
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Actually, it was pretty much the threat of fines/loss of services, and imprisonment, that have always prevented people from violating copyright... the more likely the chance of suffering those fines/loss of services and/or imprisonment, the less likely to break copyright.
And not all of it is stick... some of it is carrot. Take the cable industry, which offers hordes of television content to its users... provided you do not run a cable across the yard and illegally share your signal with your neighbor. Cable sharing is incredibly easy, so why don't more people do it? Simply because they don't want to lose their access to those hordes of TV shows. So, clearly, there are ways of convincing people to follow copyright restrictions.