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If it has DRM I will pirate it so I can get the DRM free version. If it has no copy protection I will buy it in the store. I support companies that recognize

If it has DRM I will pirate it so I can get the DRM free version. If it has no copy protection I will buy it in the store. I support companies that recognize property rights.

electromagnetic 17y ago
That's a little naive. You never copied a book a thousand times because you don't own a printing press. There's no market capital overhead to prevent you making a million copies of an e-book. You obviously don't support property rights if you're willing to pirate products. You can recognize property rights by not buying their product and complain, that's your legal recourse for a market decision you don't like. When you buy a creative product you are completely restricted in how you use it, regardless of if you bought a book, an e-book, a song or a CD. You can't use it for public events, you can't sell it on without the authors/publishers permission (in books the permission is implied hence legal, with e-books the permission is not implied hence illegal), you definitely cannot make copies. These are their property rights, they made it so they own every right and those rights extend implicitly from every post-it you write on to every photograph you take. Until you, or an author says, 'yes you can use that' (when you buy their product you have automatic right of private use) and if you ask an author if you can copy their book/song/movie and they say yes, well then you have that right. Until then it's a crime, that's why people get punished for it. So please don't be ignorant and claim you support companies that recognize property rights, they all fully recognize them because they have ALL the rights. If PubCo Inc recalls its book it has to do everything in its power to retrieve the book, which can include legal action. It can happen with everything from cars to microwaves, it also could happen with a book. And it happened with an ebook, Amazon had a recall obligation and they got every single ebook recalled like they're obligated to. Quit your whining, change the laws if you care so much because you obviously don't understand property rights and obligations if you're complaining a recall of a product goes against your rights. If you own an illegal product through legal means, it's still an illegal product! Microsoft offers to replace your OS with a legal one if you can prove someone sold you an illegal copy of Windows and they've offered that for years, because they'd rather get the distributor than the purchaser. However it's your legal obligation to make sure the products you buy are genuine. Microsoft can still sue you for illegally owning a copy of their product, even if you paid someone full price believing you bought a real MS Vista. It's then your legal right to sue the person who defrauded you! The only things in this world that you will legally own is your land and house. God forbid the zoning laws change or someone wants to put a bypass through your property. You can also own anything you make, so if you want to own your books, make your own. You want to own your computer? Make your own, out of parts you made yourself. I don't even own my animals, because if I don't care for them like I'm legally obligated to, they get taken away by the SPCA.
- nazgulnarsil 17y ago
  Intellectual property, all the uses you mentioned that are forbidden, is completely insane. if the only way you can make a profit off your product is to control how people use it after they purchase it from you then you need a new business model. people published books and invented things before we ever had copyrights and patents.

If it has DRM I will pirate it so I can get the DRM free version. If it has no copy protection I will buy it in the store. I support companies that recognize property rights.

electromagnetic 17y ago

That's a little naive. You never copied a book a thousand times because you don't own a printing press. There's no market capital overhead to prevent you making a million copies of an e-book. You obviously don't support property rights if you're willing to pirate products. You can recognize property rights by not buying their product and complain, that's your legal recourse for a market decision you don't like. When you buy a creative product you are completely restricted in how you use it, regardless of if you bought a book, an e-book, a song or a CD. You can't use it for public events, you can't sell it on without the authors/publishers permission (in books the permission is implied hence legal, with e-books the permission is not implied hence illegal), you definitely cannot make copies. These are their property rights, they made it so they own every right and those rights extend implicitly from every post-it you write on to every photograph you take. Until you, or an author says, 'yes you can use that' (when you buy their product you have automatic right of private use) and if you ask an author if you can copy their book/song/movie and they say yes, well then you have that right. Until then it's a crime, that's why people get punished for it. So please don't be ignorant and claim you support companies that recognize property rights, they all fully recognize them because they have ALL the rights. If PubCo Inc recalls its book it has to do everything in its power to retrieve the book, which can include legal action. It can happen with everything from cars to microwaves, it also could happen with a book. And it happened with an ebook, Amazon had a recall obligation and they got every single ebook recalled like they're obligated to. Quit your whining, change the laws if you care so much because you obviously don't understand property rights and obligations if you're complaining a recall of a product goes against your rights. If you own an illegal product through legal means, it's still an illegal product! Microsoft offers to replace your OS with a legal one if you can prove someone sold you an illegal copy of Windows and they've offered that for years, because they'd rather get the distributor than the purchaser. However it's your legal obligation to make sure the products you buy are genuine. Microsoft can still sue you for illegally owning a copy of their product, even if you paid someone full price believing you bought a real MS Vista. It's then your legal right to sue the person who defrauded you! The only things in this world that you will legally own is your land and house. God forbid the zoning laws change or someone wants to put a bypass through your property. You can also own anything you make, so if you want to own your books, make your own. You want to own your computer? Make your own, out of parts you made yourself. I don't even own my animals, because if I don't care for them like I'm legally obligated to, they get taken away by the SPCA.

nazgulnarsil 17y ago
Intellectual property, all the uses you mentioned that are forbidden, is completely insane. if the only way you can make a profit off your product is to control how people use it after they purchase it from you then you need a new business model. people published books and invented things before we ever had copyrights and patents.