A world free from DRM, copyrights and patents

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SmokeyVol

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What would it be like to wake up tomorrow and have the ability to take everything that exists and recreate it as needed absolutely free from royalty or limitation? If people and companies could copy anything in existence, rolling it into whatever product they can design, and then attempt to sell it to others ... what would that world look like...............
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Seems to me that he would be a hard world to make a living as an artist.
 
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vader said:
Seems to me that he would be a hard world to make a living as an artist.
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or as one of the millions who works behind the scenes for the artist's work.

For example a mixer at a recording studio. Not that anyone knows his name anyway, but if you take away his chance at making money, he's certainly doomed.
 
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volfanbill said:
or as one of the millions who works behind the scenes for the artist's work.

For example a mixer at a recording studio. Not that anyone knows his name anyway, but if you take away his chance at making money, he's certainly doomed.
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The collective will provide for him, just as it does in Cuba.
 
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Just think of all the jobs it would create in the journalism sector when people start writting and blogging and analyzing which is better, the original or the new version. We'll have new talk show hosts and commentators and pollsters. Cause everybody will have to have their say on which one is best.
 
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Intellectual property rights encourage the risk taking needed to move ideas into reality. Take it away and we're all screwed.
 
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Sounds like were are discussing modern China.
That already is their methodology.Very well documented,
is it not.
 
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Seems like a terrible idea to me. While it would be neat to have access to all those things for free, the fact that it would be so hard to make money off of inventions, or any artistic things would cause the quality of the innvoation and art to seriously decline.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
Sounds like were are discussing modern China.
That already is their methodology.Very well documented,
is it not.
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One major exception - they are ignoring Intellectual Property rights of others. If those IP rights were gone completely would any of those products, songs, creations even exist?

It's a classic free rider issue. If all are free riders, there's nothing to ride!
 
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volinbham said:
One major exception - they are ignoring Intellectual Property rights of others. If those IP rights were gone completely would any of those products, songs, creations even exist?

It's a classic free rider issue. If all are free riders, there's nothing to ride!
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exactly what I was trying to say, only you said it much better.
 
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This would be akin to retyping your favorite book, slapping your name on it, and selling it on the street. "Slaughterhouse Five" by IPorange. five bucks.
 
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volinbham said:
One major exception - they are ignoring Intellectual Property rights of others. If those IP rights were gone completely would any of those products, songs, creations even exist?

It's a classic free rider issue. If all are free riders, there's nothing to ride!
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Necessity being what it is, either the need to solve a problem or the inspiration to create.I would argue that
the vast majority of things would exist!

If free riders and rides were the result,because people of the world produced products and services free to all.Were every thing could be had for free because you new you needs would be meet at no cost.Would it be such a bad thing.:)
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
Necessity being what it is, either the need to solve a problem or the inspiration to create.I would argue that
the vast majority of things would exist!

If free riders and rides were the result,because people of the world produced products and services free to all.Were every thing could be had for free because you new you needs would be meet at no cost.Would it be such a bad thing.:)
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You are omitting the notion of development cost, risk and investment.

What incentive would Pfizer have to bring a new drug to market? Patent protection is essential to recouping costs.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
Necessity being what it is, either the need to solve a problem or the inspiration to create.I would argue that
the vast majority of things would exist!

If free riders and rides were the result,because people of the world produced products and services free to all.Were every thing could be had for free because you new you needs would be meet at no cost.Would it be such a bad thing.:)
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That is why communist nations have been such leaders in innovation throughout the past century or so.
 
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volinbham said:
You are omitting the notion of development cost, risk and investment.

What incentive would Pfizer have to bring a new drug to market? Patent protection is essential to recouping costs.
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I understand your point.

But for what kind of a society i was referring to,such concerns would be non sequitur.Were profit was non-existent.That men strove solely for the betterment of man kind.

Admittedly,a pipe dream minus the pipe!
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
I understand your point.

But for what kind of a society i was referring to,such concerns would be non sequitur.Were profit was non-existent.That men strove solely for the betterment of man kind.

Admittedly,a pipe dream minus the pipe!
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Welcome to the board, the ghost of Gene Roddenberry.
 
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vader said:
Welcome to the board, the ghost of Gene Roddenberry.
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Finally a true and gifted mind reader.

I realized that while I was laying out the post.

I feel like I've been caught with my hand in the cookie jar.Without ever having been in the kitchen!:eek:hmy:
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
Finally a true and gifted mind reader.

I realized that while I was laying out the post.

I feel like I've been caught with my hand in the cookie jar.Without ever having been in the kitchen!:eek:hmy:
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Ironic that you would steal his idea in this thread. His attorneys have been contacted. :p
 
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