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Topic: The tangability of Digital Purchases
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 01-28-2012 07:11 PM
I think the issue is that when I "buy" media, I expect to use that media for my own private use indefinitely...be that a book, CD, record, ebook...etc.
What the copyright police are doing is saying...well sort of...we'll let you have it until your widget dies. It is really a license for use on one widget rather than a license to you, per say.
One of the problems in the digitally perfect world is the notion of sharing. With physical media, if I loan you my CD, I no longer have use of that CD so only one copy exists for which a license was purchased. If you make a digitally perfect copy...that is when the issue arises. Yes, in analog we could record or records but there is a presumption that the quality will be less...particularly if one goes to something like cassettes. With digital...you have what I have. And you might just "loan" that to a friend with another digitally perfect copy. Compared to my dupe of a record onto cassette and you then duping a cassette...etc.
Mind you, the RIAA never wanted you doing the duping at all...there was no means to really stop it though and the law over the last several decades have gone really wacky in favor of copyright holders. I think people should have copyright protection but I think it should be on the order of patents...you get a period time to own/profit from it but eventually, it falls into public domain. That is how copyright was set up...it is society, after all, that sets up a copyright system to honor one's work. If society didn't give a darn, there is nothing one could do and presumably less and lower quality works would be created because there would be no financial incentive. However, this business of "life of the author plus 50 (or maybe it is 75) years" is absurd. Make more like patents...you get your 25-years or so...50-years tops and then it is public domain. That which created it will have eeked what ever profit there was in it. Oh...another thing...if I controlled this...if you want to change a copyrighted piece and recopyright...you then have to surrender the original copyright...sorry George.
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