I feel like there has to be an honest way to make sure that creators get paid. In the same way, I feel that any system of controlling downloads is inevitably highly artificial. It's ridiculous that a library, for example, purchases X licenses of an e-book and when X+Y people place holds on it, Y people need to wait. That's not the way digital information works. When you copy something, the original still exists, unlike with tangible objects. DRM forces an outmoded model on a new system, and the result is that people illegally download things.
(And of course, it was difficult for most creators to make a living before digital piracy became a Thing. I imagine it's impossible now, or will be shortly.)
I think there are solutions, of course, but commie pinko that I am, most of these solutions involve the abolition of capitalism.
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Date: 2012-03-23 11:00 pm (UTC)(And of course, it was difficult for most creators to make a living before digital piracy became a Thing. I imagine it's impossible now, or will be shortly.)
I think there are solutions, of course, but commie pinko that I am, most of these solutions involve the abolition of capitalism.