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11 years, 12 months ago - Marlom Tander

In another thread it was suggested that as a digital copy is a copy that doesn't impact on the original then it isn't theft.

Hmmm

So fashion designers have nothing to grumble about when people copy their designs?

The THEFT is of the creators rightful rights and income.

Now I don't for one moment buy the argument that every pirated copy is a sale lost, but if piracy displaces enough sales, it does damage. Home taping was never going kill the music industry, and indeed there is an argument that artists can always gig for money, working their way up from pubs to stadiums, even if modern piracy kills the rest of the infrastructure. But movies? ALL the revenue is based on sales. There is no unpiratable gig equivalent.

As to the Porche example, just wait until someone makes available the "maker files" for a 911 and an "atoms tor" service sets up to automatically disperse the manufacturing across multiple fabs.

http://www.genewscenter.com/Press-Releases/GE-Announces-Opening-of-GE-Garages-Manufacturing-Fab-Lab-Space-in-Chicago-42a8.aspx

Wouldn't you rather spend 10K on parts and 5K having your local garage put them together than 60K for the identical item from Porche themselves.

It'll never happen? I went online corporately with a 300 bytes per second (yes that is bytes per second. It might even have been bits per second, I wasn't technical back then) modem in 1984 and privately with a Demon account (account number 6000ish) and an incredible 14.4K modem in 1993. My first browser was the text only Delphi and WAIS, Gopher and Telnet were the big tools de jour. Now look at the world.

So...

Pretty soon the Gvts will have to decide to treat non patent intellectual property rights seriously, OR decide that it's all too hard and watch as people stop spending more than fun money on them.