I think you're a crucial microcosm example though.
Let's hear your "solution" for the sake of edge-context frustration, then let's thrash a little. (Shoot anyone who copies your software?)
What type of software did you make that you're unhappy about being on the Interwebs? How much does it cost normally for a copy?
Then we can see if you can become part of the new business models you mentioned.
I'm earnest - if "we can make you happy" then we just "repeat times a million".
I agree it really is a difficult problem, but "nothing useful to offer" allowed some Very Bad Men to almost ruin us.
You're completely missing what I was trying to say.
(Shoot anyone who copies your software?)
You couldn't be farther from what I think.
What type of software did you make that you're unhappy about being on the Interwebs? How much does it cost normally for a copy?
Again, you couldn't be farther from how I feel about the issue.
My software is $49.95. Not a lot, but not cheap in some places. Completely unaffordable in other places.
Unhappy? Far from it. I'm very thankful for the customers that have paid me.
I write audio software for musicians to learn new music. Here's the main page for it:
http://renegademinds.com/Products/GuitarDrumTrainer/tabid/65/Default.aspx
You're in the RIAA/MPAA or "anti-piracy" mindset. I am not upset about this. Not at all.
Then we can see if you can become part of the new business models you mentioned.
My software doesn't fit into the new business model. Yet. I'm working on that.
I'm earnest - if "we can make you happy" then we just "repeat times a million".
It's not that I'm "not happy". That is completely irrelevant. My happiness is not determined by this issue. I suppose that this is really too complex of an issue to get into here.
I agree it really is a difficult problem, but "nothing useful to offer" allowed some Very Bad Men to almost ruin us.
It's just not productive to get into the issue for what I think the best solution is.
There are a few problems. I'll outline them and why I shouldn't bother talking about them, then I'll go into the masochistic torture of detailing them... sigh...
The first problem is that the immediate reaction (assuming people understood) would be for people to tell me that I'm completely nuts. I can deal with that. That's not a problem for me. It's a problem for other people.
The second problem is that few people understand the issues involved enough to actually understand what I'd talk about.
The third problem is that the objections to my solution are resolved in most ways (not all) by highly technical and involved solutions.
Ok... here goes the masochism...
I'll outline the solution and then enumerate from the above...
THE SOLUTION (Addressed to the whiny b*****s that complain about piracy)
If you can't protect your own stuff, f**k you. Learn how to deal with s**t and stop your f*****g b******g. Grow a f*****g pair of b**ls and stop your g******n whining.
Learn how to create a following and encourage your following to pay you for what you do. It works for a lot of other people, and it can work for you. (This is a very truncated version, but if you look at the business model, you can read into it and actually do well. I can give examples.)
If you're too much of a g*****n p***y to deal with it, get another job. Take your capital and so something else. We won't miss you. Someone will fill your shoes.
That was a rant.
#1
Eliminate patents and copyright laws. Run with Jefferson's ideas on ideas.
http://movingtofreedom.org/2006/10/06/thomas-jefferson-on-patents-and-freedom-of-ideas/
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
So, that's the basis.
Next...
Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices.
An pay particular attention to:
...generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society...
At this point I should not have to actually go into why patents and copyright are not good things... but I will...
Now, for specific processes, you don't really need a patent. Something that is truly innovative is not easily duplicatable. That is, even if I told you the idea, you wouldn't be able to use it. Or at least not immediately.
I don't want to get into that further. Please take up objections with Thomas Jefferson.
#2
So, the things we need to understand are (not exhaustively):
* Thomas Jefferson
* Physical reality
* Mind / body
* Cartesian Dualism and Anomalous Monism (Davidson) (well, not 100% necessary, but nice to know)
* Property and property rights
* Communication and what it entails
* The idea that sharing an idea doesn't destroy the idea (this is redundant from the above, but worth mentioning)
Maybe a few more things, but that covers the metaphysics, the physics, and the fundamental laws. i.e. That's A-Z on the topic with a few extras.
#3
Resolutions to the problem can easily be solved through technology. These problems are mostly trivial to solve. There's not much brain power involved. (So, you can exclude Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA.)
etc. etc. etc.
This stuff isn't very hard to figure out, but it takes some effort. Rather than rely on lawyers, it requires thought and something of real value.
Oh yeah... And I'm 3/4 the way through a bottle of vodka, so I may have left some stuff out.
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That cuts to heart of the 'other' part of the whole copyright problem.
