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Re:I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off by rumanator on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:10AM (#21646137)
Copy and distribution costs are just a part of the cost. Development and maintenance does require real flesh and blood people spending their days working on developing, building, and deployment. That part costs money.
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Re:I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off by bayesian_horse on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:35AM (#21646247)
The artificial scarcity applies to copies of an individual piece of software, rather than the scarcity of different pieces of software.

Once you build it, almost the only way to achieve scarcity is through IP law.

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Re:I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off by javajosh on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:21AM (#21646188)
You tacitly assume that I am not aware that software products have an R&D cost, and you are (insultingly) wrong. Of course they do. And without artificial scarcity that R&D cost will not be recouped. The default state of software is an open source model, where the "developing, building, and deployment" doesn't cost money because there isn't any.
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Re:I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off by saberdancer on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:52AM (#21646569)
Copy and distribution costs for movies in a digital age are non existant. Are movies using artificial scarcity?
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Re:I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off by BlueTemplar on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @10:38AM (#21648728)
That movies are almost impossible to buy DRM-free should give you a hint ?
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Re:I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off by javajosh on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @10:22AM (#21648565)
Yes.
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