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Sorry, those are the facts. This does not preclude people buying copyrighted material, but buying has become a choice, not a necessity. |
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Getting around DRM is still something outside the skills of a lot of people. But you're right that personal piracy of music is rampant. Still, American Idol can't get away with not paying royalties to the artists who's songs are used. And individuals have been sued by the music industry. Lee |
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A finely edited book probably have high quality with respect to the book and how the text is presented. |
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If you want to believe that obscurity = security, be my guest. It's a joke in actual security design circles. Now as I pointed out, commercial exploitation is still affected by copyright, as there is enough value at stake for litigation. The random user has been successfully sued, the legal costs for the suit vastly outweighed the about that could be seized. 100,000 such "victories" would, by itself, bankrupt the music industry. |
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Soviet Communism was akin to a corporate monopoly, only instead of shareholders you have the party, instead of a CEO you have the head of the party or the dictator, instead of controlling one industry the regime controls all industries, and unlike a regular monopoly, which has a more powerful government to answer to, a communist regime has nothing higher to answer to. |
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And in the modern developed countries -- what segments of societies are creating the new products and innovations? Is it the parts that are "socialized" are the parts that remain free and capitalist? Lee |
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Almost all the basic research done for what makes up the modern world, biotechnology, computers, the internet, gps, radar, satelite, was provided by government funded institutions. Additionally, those most responsible for the innovations and products of the modern world are not the best compensated. Most scientists make a pittance. The average engineer makes about 70,000 dollars a year, and even the best paid engineers and programmers only make 2-300,000 a year. Good money, but not nearly close to what a professional athlete makes, or a hedge fund manager, or a wall street executive. Of course people want to be compensated for their work, but there is no a strong correlation between creative activity and compensation. In other words, people don't become scientists and engineers to get rich. Back to the OP, I see no problem with high priced books. I do think there needs to be a balance between access and ownership. Culture is shared; it is not owned, contrary to the dogma of copyright warriors. No one originates anything in himself, and those on the side of access understand that. Our current copyright laws have become so skewed against access in favor of ownership that the debate has become trench warfare, two sides divided into those that believe in access, and those that believe in ownership. Neither side is wrong per se, but both are extreme. We do have some balance between access and ownership, but I don't know if we have the right balance. After two or three years libraries can usually make copyrighted books available for a limited time in limited quantities; I think this is a fair trade off, and it is a reason why it is vital to continue to support libraries. There is also limits on the duration of copyrights, but currently those limits are too long and too uniform. Last edited by spellbanisher; 05-13-2011 at 03:39 PM. |
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http://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Civilizations-David-R-Montgomery/dp/0520258061/ Poor planning(non-organic planning) Along with massive amounts of death doled out to the communistic ideal at the expense of the united states taxpayer probably had something to do with the soviet unions collapse. No system ever really fails, they are either working as intended or need to be worked on to attain such a state. |
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Actually the classics became that because enough people enjoyed them that the publishers(who wanted to make $$) kept them in print. Those books that didn't make much money went out of print. And in the past a lot of writers would publish their books in parts in the newspaper before they actually were printed up as a whole book. Charles Dickens was one such writer. And Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories were 1st printed in the Strand Magazine before they were collected into books. Many classics have become part of the language as well. If we tell someone that so and so is a real Scrooge for example or that someone we know is a real Sherlock Holmes most people know what the person means without being told.
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However, the fact that technical errors can and do exist does not invalid the statement that book quality is subjective. As an example, a poorly edited, grammatically incorrect sci-fi novel possesses infinitely more "quality" to me than the best-edited KKK manual in the world. I am not all hot and bothered about the grammatically incorrect books on Smashwords. If the author is truly unskilled, the technical errors will occur early enough in the book that very little of my time is wasted and I can move on to greener pastures. I'm more concerned about the quality of the book content - and in that regard, I do not think the publishers are effective gatekeepers because they are too busy trying to push out the next big thing than to make or suggest meaningful edits. (Not that this strategy doesn't work for them, but that's another post entirely.) Last edited by anamardoll; 05-13-2011 at 04:46 PM. |
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Copying is now a matter of daily business & social life; there's no legal difference between your computer's automatic copying of a web page and your deliberately copying a friend's ebook. The web page presumably gave permission by existing--but what if it revokes that? Existence on the web doesn't give you the right to copy it; what if they've got an unencrypted page with company documents, that the only give the URL to select people, and prosecute for copyright infringement anyone else who visits it? What if a company decided to make its money this way: post some sensitive documents online, track the IP addresses of any unauthorized person who visits the site, get a warrant & prosecute for copyright infringement? And yeah, that's a rather silly example--that fits perfectly with copyright law as it currently stands. (Google "Righthaven.") The law has allowed companies whose sole purpose is to prosecute copyright infringement--without proof that the infringement is causing any harm to anyone. |
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