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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
When people start to research the possibility of developing a new product. They have to calculate it's sales and profit potential.
If that sales and profit potential is reduced by copyright violation. They are hindered and spend less. Everything GG is using to type his babble on this board went through this process. If the piracy had a bad effect on R & D. He wouldn't have a computer which can do what it does, wouldn't have programs that let him do what he does.
Copyright is good. It means a drugs company can spend millions on R & D for a drug, same with computers, cars, airplanes and even biscuits in the supermarket.
Imagine a world where GG gets his way and there's no such thing as copyright. Or is he saying it's only for online?
So if I have the formula for a new cancer drug that cost 10s of millions to R & D. I can share it on the Internet?
No the pirated philosophy is simple. Others can pay so I can get it for free. The last thing he wants is to have what he campaigns for. It would mean much fewer would bother to produce new things.
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If Gideon got his way there would be no TV shows, movies or much in the way of music/radio.
Gideon would have it so that if Sony decided to sue people who were illegally downloading their content and they filed 10,000 lawsuits and 9,999 of them were correct and ended up with them winning in court or settling out of court, but one of them happened to be where someone innocent was accidentally charged then Sony has to give up all of their copyrights. So all of their movies, music and TV shows now become public domain and their source of income is gone.
So what would happen is that companies would simply not do anything about piracy. They would be forced to just let it happen for fear that they might accidentally charge the wrong person and lose everything they have. When there is absolutely no deterrent and everyone knows they can't come after you piracy would explode to the point where many companies would simply either stop making content or they would make it so cheap and so low budget that it sucked, but they would be forced to to do so because the window of actually making money on it would be very small.