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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
Fair use is not distributing on the internet though. Fair use is showing it to friends in the privacy of your own home. Most definitely fair use does not come into play any time a profit is being made.
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The issue has so many facets, so many graduations.
- If I steal your content and SELL it to make money, now that really is dishonest.
- Now if I borrow a friend's DVD and watch it, that used to be legal. But maybe there should be a small fee on this
- there are all kinds of graduations in between: I give your content to my friend, I leave it sitting for everyone to download, but I don't make money, etc.
Facts are that we become a police state to protect author rights. (DCMA etc)
Facts are that reinstalling software is a pain because we need to remember where we left all these huge numbers to type in.
So a new model would be great. Like in Germany, where there is a fee for virgin CDs that pays for copyright. Of course, a fee on internet traffic will not do, so i wonder what can be done .........
But the entire model of enforcing copyright sucks. It really is disturbing.
Now how to produce porn if everyone can copy it freely? that sure is a problem.
Lots of people would still produce music eve if it were distributed freely.
Lots of books would have much more impact if they were freely distibutable.
Maybe we should have a spy program on our computer that pays very SMALL fees for all we watch.
Or at the end of each movie you decide how many micro-cents you thing you should pay for it.
Most stuff could be much cheaper and easier to use, if it were not carefully guarded by copyright and stuff
Guess some people better informed then me already thought about this and found some solution, but guess there is no good solution yet.