05-18-2011, 08:37 AM | #196 |
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How does that work with the blessing? If it is crap, nobody wants it and then who cares if it is copyrighted or not? I don't want to look at it either way, so am I missing something?
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05-18-2011, 09:45 AM | #197 | |
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Do you understand that if nothing can be sold, the bootleggers would instantly go out of business, indeed there would be no business left for them. People should theoretically get their content from the authentic source, and be willing to pay the authentic source. The right to a digital copy is a natural right. |
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05-18-2011, 09:50 AM | #198 | |
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However, there has to be some viable mechanism for artists of all types to continue to make an income. Without that, removing copyright is foolish and malicious. |
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05-18-2011, 09:57 AM | #199 | |
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Bootlegging would not go out of business at all. If someone wants a Bart Simpson T-Shirt (going back a few years when such things were hot), are they going to the mall to buy it for the high official price (and the price has to be high to offset all the counterfitters), or from the guy down the block, or on the corner, or at the flea market, who can sell the same shirt of 1/3 the price? And why bother paying for a digital good from the authentic source when you can get every new book, movie or song just as easily for free? There is no right to a digital copy. |
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05-18-2011, 10:27 AM | #200 | |
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The greater amount of people were also unable to read through out most of history as well. Why have a copyright on a book when 90% or more of your prospective customers can't read it. The stained glass windows in the old churches weren't put there for making the churches look beautiful (though they often do), but because most people couldn't even read the Bible much less any other book back then and needed a visual guide to tell them about the Bible. Storytellers went about telling their tales for the same reason. Few could read the actual texts the tales were written in. So there was no need for a copyright because only a very few could read and to buy a book (usually hand copied by the church) was expensive.
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As for bootlegging, if we are to believe the will be an explosion in the market for "value added" crap ons then why should we not believe that bootleggers will try to hone in on and undercut that market? Quote:
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2.I suppose someone could collect all the books by an author and format then nicely into an anthology with some illustrations and submit that to the network. But where on the network? It is predicted that sites offering ebooks for sale will fall to the fringes of the network after copyright is abandoned. It is reasonable considering that we tend to gravitate towards "free" ebooks and such. There will be no market for ebooks. |
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