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- eric - Mar 12 2007 | books, publishing, free, DRM, piracy, thepugetnews
A great essay on why piracy is not harming legitimate sales of books but DRM is...
Quoted: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an "economic epidemic" under certain conditions. Any one of the following:
Quoted: 1) The products they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.
Quoted: 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them.
Quoted: 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with.
Quoted: Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.
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WE MUST KILL LIBRARIES! PROTECT COPYRIGHTED CONTENT!
D, you are strange. It is funny though, isn't it? How do libraries even exist given the publishers' attitudes towards distribution?
DESTROY HOME RECORDING DEVICES! THE VCR WILL KILL THE MOVIE INDUSTRY!
Note to self: Please remove Derek's Caps Lock key when next at Blue Dot offices.