Philosophical Quandry: Piracy

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
1) My solution adresses it. It's illegal. Just because something illegal is easy to do and hard to stop doesn't mean we give up trying. A better method is like what Baron and Tesco are advocating, getting to the root of the actual problems and solving them rather then scrapping our entire economic system and handing over all art, entertainment, and software to some faceless burocracy.

2) You must not have read it then. I said that corporations should not be able to own copyrights. I said that artists/authors should control the distribution and recive the compensation for their production. What else do you want, beside the right to copy freely any software you feel like jsut because you can?

I was replying to your short message which I quoted, not your earlier proposal.

The problem with anti-piracy laws is that they're obsolete and unenforceable. Or if you can enforce them, it is with very invasive stuff that forces you to surveil the public, and/or make all your computers look for copyright codes and refuse to copy data that has them. That's scary stuff, which a megacorp near you is working on.

Suppose you're playing Space Empires X, empire creation, and you can choose whether you want your people to have free access to all their own media or not, as a society. Which empire is going to have better research and happiness Ratings? The one where the average citizen can only afford to access 0.01% of the media?

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