Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?

Alas, even with physical media, the cost of production was a small part of the cost of goods.  You could do short-run LP production for $1 each, for example, and even adding a printed sleeve came nowhere near the typical sale prices.

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On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>> No, it is more like the people objecting to enclosed shops, where
>> pilfering is much harder then when the same goods are sold from open
>> stalls in a market.
> 
> That would have been a good analogy twenty years ago.  When physical
> media were still used, one could actually steal content.  I'd take your
> copy - or, more precisely, the disc upon which it resided - and you'd be
> less one copy yourself.  That's theft.
> 
> Nowadays, technological improvements mean that I can make a copy of your
> media, with perfect fidelity.  You haven't lost anything - you still
> have the original - and I've gained, say, some music.  This simply isn't
> theft by any reasonable use of the term.
> 
> It can be other things.  Copyright violation, for example.  Manifestly
> unfair, if it leads to artists not being paid for their time.  But
> theft?  Not really.
> 
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