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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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Erm, first off your example of carrot seems just like another example of the stick. My way or else... But here's the problem, this isn't publishers and authors taking their toys and going home if things don't go their way. This is law and courts and customs agents and even police at times. I pay for other people's copyrights even if i have no interest in the content becuse the existence of copyright has a cost. But there's nothing in it for me, for us... Progress is locked up till long after I'm dead. So I have to ask, are you really defending the current state of these laws? If so what can you say to justify the breaking of DRM being a criminal act? Retroactive copyright extension? Life+70 copyright terms? Takes downs of non commercial fanfiction and fan art? Revoking first sale rights? Up to $150000 statutory damages per act of infringement? Border searches of the contents of electronic devices with a copyright justification?