Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards
by rabidsnail on Monday September 03, 2012 @04:44PM
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No monopoly protection at all, and all culture would be funded by kickstarter (or clones).
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards
by krichman on Monday September 03, 2012 @10:07PM
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This would work just fine for, say, Louis CK, but how would unknown/new artists earn any money at all?
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards
by antidoh on Monday September 03, 2012 @10:36PM
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Work as waiters and barristas and software developers until their art pays the bills. Just like now.
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards
by briandear on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @01:21AM
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What's your address? I want to help myself to all of your stuff. So what if you've worked for it. I want it so I should have it. Private citizens ought not have the right to retain ownership of anything. Everything should be free right? So let's start at your house. It's cool though, you can have a kickstarter to buy new stuff. I might even chip in $5.
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards
by EliRivers on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @09:08AM
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Once again, a refusal to acknowledge the difference between taking a physical object and making a copy of some information. They're DIFFERENT THINGS.
I'll say that again for the hard of thinking. Taking a physical object is NOT the same as making a copy of some information.
Put another way, just to make sure, making a copy of some information is NOT THE SAME as taking a physical object.
I'd submit that, increasingly, these two ideas are indistinguishable.
I'm very much in favor of copyright (after all, I make a living by creating protected works) but as automated and over-reaching enforcement like this becomes the norm, it is increasingly difficult for me to defend this position.
Unfortunately, I don't know what the "next best alternative" to copyright protection is. That is, what kind of system would one need to protect us from these kinds of incidents?