Philosophical Quandry: Piracy

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PvK:
You're just ignoring the points and the topic. There are many reasons. Two are:

1) Like your previous suggestion, your solution doesn't address unauthorized copying. My system authorizes all copying. Your system retains incentive to copy without paying, but technology makes such copying trivial and costless (except to the creator who loses compensation). Nonetheless, your suggestion works to a limited extent, as evidenced by Shrapnel.

2) Your suggestion doesn't include how to eliminate the current megacorporate leeches which dominate the industry.

PvK

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?