__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 04 March 2007 23:15 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| 1) The product they want--electronic texts--are hard to find, and
>>| thus valuable.
>>|
>>| 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair
>>| amount of money to be saved by stealing them.
>>|
>>| 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances
>>| that the illegal version is better to begin with.
>>|
>>| 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.
>>|
>>| And . . .
>>|
>>| 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.
>> `----
>>
>> http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6
>>
>
> Interesting points. I think this issue has been addressed at great
> length here in cola in the past. As the man says, scarcity,
> artificially high prices and general inconvenience for the user when you
> /do/ do the right thing is bound to lead to, at the very least,
> stripping off DRM. Once that's been done, it's a small matter amongst
> those of little means to decide that they're being ripped off, and think
> it acceptable to share copies.
>
> The proper solution is to sell goods free of encumbrances, at a
> reasonable price. Consider that there is still general inconvenience
> even in copying an audio CD, just the time to hire it for ripping, or to
> download it over a dsl line and then copy it, to buy a blank, to make
> the copy, all of this takes time and effort, and no small investment.
>
> If CDs were charged for at reasonable prices, then most people probably
> would not bother going to all that effort in the first place.
The RIAA wanted to triple the cost of CDs, IIRC. They are delusional.
Frustration can lead to this.
Let the RIAA speak to journalists and photographers. Rivers just run dry.
Unlike Microsoft, journalists do not have the budget necessary to bribe
politician and change IP laws, take companies to court, issue threats,
inject bogus 'studies' into search engines, etc.
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~~ Best wishes
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