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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.

  • derek - Mar 12 2007
    

    WE MUST KILL LIBRARIES! PROTECT COPYRIGHTED CONTENT!

  • eric - Mar 12 2007
    

    D, you are strange. It is funny though, isn't it? How do libraries even exist given the publishers' attitudes towards distribution?

  • derek - Mar 12 2007
    

    DESTROY HOME RECORDING DEVICES! THE VCR WILL KILL THE MOVIE INDUSTRY!

  • eric - Mar 12 2007
    

    Note to self: Please remove Derek's Caps Lock key when next at Blue Dot offices.