A big blow to the Internet Archive.
  • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    How do you prove how much a work is even used/viewed? That would require heaps and loads of DRM management and to go after those who circumvent those measures… which takes money/infrastructure… and GASP That’s exactly what the publishers are doing now! Look at that!

    We’ve proven time and time again that people will pick the legal option as long as it’s more convenient and a better product than the illegal one.

    Spotify and Netflix stomped piracy in every region they entered, PC games that don’t have DRM still sell like crazy through Steam.

    And while it would require monitoring of metrics, that’s not the same as DRM that prevents you from using something.

    But it doesn’t sound like you care to imagine a different system or why it would be better, you seem to just want to demand that the concept of information ownership stay exactly as the 1900s US Congress and Court System, in all their unquestionable wisdom, determined it should be.

      • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        PC games that don’t have DRM still sell like crazy through Steam.

        Steam… IS a DRM. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

        Steam is not popular because of its DRM. And again, in this scenario, everyone would have access to everything. The system’s only job would be tracking what gets downloaded / played and rewarding creators based on that.

        But it doesn’t sound like you care to imagine a different system or why it would be better, you seem to just want to demand that the concept of ownership stay exactly as th US Congress and Court System, in all their unquestionable wisdom, determined it should be.

        Nope, just asked to to clarify how this ***magic ***system can work without someone to enforce it. And you’ve yet to answer that.

        Given that you’re dismissively talking about a “magic system” while trying to defend against being closed minded towards it, that defense rings pretty hollow.

        And I’ve never said there wouldn’t be anyone to enforce it, I said there would be no incentive not to use it.

          • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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            10 months ago

            GOG as an example would have been better. But you didn’t choose that. You chose a system that DOES have DRM and DOES act like a publisher and takes a cut. That isn’t a good way to sell your “new system” when Steam does EVERYTHING the “old system” does.

            Given that you can see a different comparable example, and yet instead of just going “yeah like GOG”, or thinking to yourself “yeah GOG would be a better example, I get what he means though”, you’re going “YOU didn’t SAY gog WHAT an ASSHOLE”, I again, urge you to reflect on whether you’re having a good faith conversation or whether you just have a stick up your ass about something and are venting online.

            And no, Steam prevents people who haven’t purchased a game from playing it. You are fundamentally not understanding what I’m writing if you’re not seeing how that’s different from a system where everyone has access to everything.