There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
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| 1) The product they want--electronic texts--are hard to find, and
| thus valuable.
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| 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair
| amount of money to be saved by stealing them.
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| 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances
| that the illegal version is better to begin with.
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| 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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| And . . .
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| Guess what? It's precisely those three conditions that DRM
| creates in the first place. So far from being an impediment
| to so-called "online piracy," it's DRM itself that keeps
| fueling it and driving it forward.
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http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6
Related:
iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content
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| BitTorrent Inc president and co-founder, Ashwin Navin says that iTunes'
| DRM is "a time bomb waiting to happen," and that it will inspire
| people to pirate content. The irony is that his company is about to
| launch a video store that heavily implements Microsoft?s Windows DRM.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-itunes-drm-inspires-people-to-pirate-content/
MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
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| The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
| to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
| home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
| consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
| a simple digital-rights-management solution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061016/tc_zd/191502
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