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The problem isn't enforcing legitimate IP rights. Effective and consistent enforcement would cause a wrench for a lot of people, and that in turn would surely c
by Silhouette 8y ago
The problem isn't enforcing legitimate IP rights. Effective and consistent enforcement would cause a wrench for a lot of people, and that in turn would surely cause laws to be changed to give a more proportionate and realistic situation, but we'd adapt.
The problem is that no mechanism can exist to reliably enforce genuine IP rights as provided by law today without also causing collateral damage and excessive costs.
- pif 8y agoWell, you agree with me that current IP laws are obsolete and should be ameliorated, I suppose!
- Silhouette 8y agoI don't think copyright as a principle is obsolete. It generates useful economic incentives to create and distribute works, which I consider to be good things, and I have yet to encounter any alternative economic model that looks anything like as successful at achieving those things. I do think the current implementation of copyright in law is flawed in a lot of places. This is bad because it potentially imposes excessive restrictions on ordinary people and sometimes limits how much we can take advantage of the benefits of new technologies. It is also bad because it brings the law into disrepute, and combined with the practical difficulty of enforcement particularly against small-scale infringement that is only a civil matter, it results in a general sense among much of the public that infringing copyright is a victimless crime and socially acceptable.