05-24-2010, 08:21 PM | #256 |
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Well yes I think we can all admit Fair use is a problem in the eyes of the copyright cartel and they are trying to "solve" it. But since their stated goal is to prevent infringement I figured I'd go with that and point out there's no legal reason to prevent copying. I've often said copyright is a bad name and it should be called distribution-right. The act of infringement doesn't happen till the distribution.
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The main problem, as I see it, is that the people who aren't tech savvy used to buy their pirate content on CDR from the people who are. When it became easy to download that content for themselves, it left them with some spare income, which they then spent on other (legitimate) entertainment goods. But if you push downloading back underground again, they will just go back to buying CDRs from the people they used to buy them from. Which means the entertainment companies that were benefitting from their CDR money will lose out. |
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It's also about a monopoly in the distribution and pricing of content, forcing the use of certain technologies and in many cases equipment upgrades rather than the market deciding such, eliminating fair use by imposing legal barriers on it's removal and as a barrier to free trade (for example, regional restrictions). Your definition is patently inadequate on those grounds. Last edited by DawnFalcon; 05-25-2010 at 06:30 AM. |
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05-25-2010, 06:34 AM | #260 | |
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All that DRM does, really, is make it harder for the people who actually spent the money on a legitimate copy meaning that, ironically, the downloaded copy is technically superior. Last edited by rogue_librarian; 05-25-2010 at 08:18 AM. |
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Which brings us back to the original posting ... prosecuting those that do that sort of thing.
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