Re: Cory Doctorow: W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards, says it's OK for your browser to say "I can't let you do that, Dave" [via Restricted Media Community Group]

> wether the industry likes it or not, they're competing with the pirates
> at a price of 0. 
> 
> Most people are willing to pay something out of motivation to remunerate
> the creators, or because of increased convenience. 

And there's the rub.

Property only applies to resources that are scarce.  With digital media,
nothing is scarce: copies are essentially free (as in beer) to create
and distribute.  

If your business model is based upon scarcity (e.g. selling CDs that
cost money to manufacture) then you're going to have to adapt or die.  I
think that's known as capitalism, isn't it?

The issue - as far as the large publishing houses are concerned - is
that their business model has been broken by new technology.

The issue - as far as everyone else is concerned - is how to fairly
reimburse artists for their work.

Those issues are entirely orthogonal.

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