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Getting a Grip

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

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  • I think that the reason DeLong keeps arguing his lost position is either that he really believes it is turtles all the way down, or he simply is too arrogant to admit when he's gone down a bad rabbit hole.

    In either case, he's a bit lost.

    Let it go, James. Let it go.
  • What he misses, and this is probably in part due to his background as a lawyer, is that geeks are not concerned with the feature aspect, but rather what we can technically do ourselves. DVD ripping is not a feature, it's a process that we do ourselves for backup. I don't need a one-click feature to be able to do it on my machine.
  • The main problem, of course, is this strange notion that DRM helps artists gain revenues. It doesn't, the art itself does that.




    Does it protect against piracy? No, doesn't do that either. Only need ONE freerange copy and that's it. There is no speedbump, no reduction, nothing. It's completely and utterly ineffective, and for this reason alone should not be given the full force of the law.





    Secondly, the government has granted a sweeping monopoly to one company: Macrovision. Excellent work on the part of the lobbying industry, but hardly a law to help the public or private industry (excepting Macrovision) in any way.





    Finally, all those reasons you listed, Tim, were said very well. Until recently (and with few exceptions), copyright law was strictly a civil matter, and was covered quite well by contract and civil law. Useless laws annoy me far more than useless technologies.

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