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I'm not a big proponent of IP in general. However, I feel comparing a creation which can be converted to a digital form to one which cannot doesn't make much s
by tuxychandru 16y ago
I'm not a big proponent of IP in general. However, I feel comparing a creation which can be converted to a digital form to one which cannot doesn't make much sense.
In the industries with top 3 sales showed in the video (Food, Auto and fashion), the product cannot be transfered to another person without losing your won possession. Even if you copy a design you still must manufacture the apparel. Even if you copy the design of a car you still must manufacture it.
However, that's not the case with software, music or movie transferred over the internet. You don't have to re-write a software to share a verbatim copy. You don't have to direct and shoot the whole movie again to make a copy of it.
- sambeau 16y agoIt will be interesting to see what happens when we finally have replicators
- kiba 16y agoThingiverse community + Makerbot Inc. versus The Lone Inventor with a patent? I'll root for thingiverse people anytime. Nothing ruin the party more than a jackass telling people not to invent, design, and engineer, and make a living.
- binarray2000 16y agoTwo points: 1. Yes, the "products" of the three industries (Films, Books, Music) with low(er) sales are transferable. But that has only become the case in the last 10-15 years. Prior to that it was harder (with movies and music: both being distributed on different media) or even impossible (books: being distributed on paper only; not counting audio-books) to separate content and media. Yet, over decades these industries have done everything to protect themselves. 2. If you try to copy the way some software works (by re-writing it) you can get sued. Damocles sword is always hanging above your head.