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> pay a fair I often read a sentiment close to this around the topic of copyright. But what is "fair" seems to be more often than not "we want to pay as little
by ketzu 3y ago
> pay a fair
I often read a sentiment close to this around the topic of copyright. But what is "fair" seems to be more often than not "we want to pay as little as possible" with no relation to any tangible values, cost or anything.
I remember during my time at university, a popular point was a culture flat rate of 10€/month to cover everything: Games, videos, books, music, you name it.
Of course the media companies would claim fairness for themselves as well. Everybody is for fairness, they just mean vastly different things.
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- hirako2000 3y agoWe will achieve fairness once legislation adjust to Intellectual Property abuses, if not in the laws, at least in its interpretation the abuses are pretty clear to me. IP Protection is for the ownership of the art. Whether an intermediary between the audience and the author exists or not. Somehow, by extension, we ended up with exclusivity contracts and protection of the distribution. Lobbies made the law against consumers who don't play by the distributor rules, and worse, even against authors of tools made for use against distributors abuses (DRM) OK, who's to say what is fair, but it's certainly not individual consumers who have the upper hand: actually they do, unsubscribe and going pirating full on, everybody loses.