Thoughts on Piracy and DRM from AI War Creator

Post by randallsquared » Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 7:03 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #18

krig wrote: post #4

He is close to arriving to the conclusion I generally have reached when thinking about piracy issues when he says this: > People have been violating copyright and pirating and plagiarizing since long before the modern era. There's just something, deep down, that makes people believe that these sorts of ethereal products, or knowledge, can't or shouldn't be protected. To me, the real issue is this: No one spontaneousl…

> If I had an infinite supply of food, I would not think twice about handing it out to others. I don't know why people keep making this analogy, but it's a poor one imho. Here's a better view: * you have to work hard to produce that infinite supply of food, and when you're done people are not going to instantly buy your food ... it takes some time before your expenses are covered * as time passes people will grow tir…

Post by krig » Sat, Jul 25, 2009, 4:50 PM UTC

jcl wrote: post #15

krig wrote: post #4

He is close to arriving to the conclusion I generally have reached when thinking about piracy issues when he says this: > People have been violating copyright and pirating and plagiarizing since long before the modern era. There's just something, deep down, that makes people believe that these sorts of ethereal products, or knowledge, can't or shouldn't be protected. To me, the real issue is this: No one spontaneousl…

Well, it's not quite that black-and-white. DRM and copy protection has always been broken and copyright laws have always been hard to enforce, so people have always been able to get what they want for less than the asking price. Every IP-based enterprise's business model has been broken for years; Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists shows his company's model was broken even before it started. If people had no intern…