Re:Apple has damaged the perceived value of software
by goseeastarwar on Thursday May 04, 2017 @10:38AM
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You need to come up with a stronger argument than software should be free, because it's easier to copy than viagra.
Re:Apple has damaged the perceived value of software
by nine_k on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:43PM
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I'm not making an argument for "software should be free" here. I'm trying to explain why people often try to copy software or media: it's trivially easy, obviously not requiring the original author's expertise. If they pay the author in such a situation, it's because they want to support the author, not because they are forced to. This ends up with quite little. When an enforcement agency (a publisher) intervenes, the amount extracted grows, but most of it is taken by said agency.
Re:Apple has damaged the perceived value of software
by doctorwho on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:08PM
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I can't but there are people out there who can, and have done it... http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/martin-shkreli-s-750-life-savin...
Making another 100mg of a medicine may cost essentially zero on a pharmaceutical plant, but you can sell the access to the plant.
Copying data is not just easy, but you have already bought the "factory equipment" needed for it, that is, a computer. Thus the drive to dumb down consumer computers (DRM) or move the essential things from users' possession so that they could not easily copy them (SaaS).