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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Steve, you seem to forget the society GAVE rights-holders their rights. Strictly a construct of the last 300 years or so. And these right were never defines 1. permanent and 2. property. They were/are granted monopolies, with all the problems of monopolies in economics.
In addition what gives such monopoly owners the right to trash the constitution for their private gain. Because, at heart, that's what we're talking about.
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Disagree: We're talking about new laws designed to guarantee existing copyright laws are upheld, and NOT trashed. They are being trashed,
right now, by those who freely pirate works (like mine). Establishing digital securities identities (or whatever they want to call it) has nothing to do with permanence or monopolies. It has to do with protecting property. And it seems to me, anyone who does not support this addition to the law is telling me "You don't deserve the protections that society gives the rest of its citizens."
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Originally Posted by Sonist
Actually, rights-holders enjoy historically high profits, primarily because of the same advances in distribution technology they like to blame for facilitating "piracy."
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Ah... so the fact that some rights-holders are "enjoying high profits" (certainly not
me) makes stealing okay.
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Originally Posted by Sonist
Which brings me back to the point I made earlier, that if a product is sufficiently desirable and priced right, the majority of interested potential purchasers will buy it.
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And doesn't alter my point that,
even if products are desirable and priced right, people do still steal them.
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Originally Posted by Sonist
As far as "some protections" go, in a world of balancing interests, "some protections" does not usually include government agents snooping into every transaction conducted by every citizen.
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And it doesn't have to now. As I pointed out before, they don't have a strategy yet. Now is the time to help them build one that is fair, equitable, and doesn't freak out all the Big Brother paranoids any more than necessary.