Re: Design principles and ethics

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 03/05/2006 hora 22:12:
> > Did you notice we don't call it copyfee but copyright? This has
> > absolutely nothing to do with the cost of copying.
> It does.

No, it doesn't. I insist.

> Copyright was only possible because copying was an expensive
> operation. The cheaper it became, the harder to enforce it.

Correction: Copyright was only possible to enforce because copying was
an expensive operation.

This doesn't mean it is about cost in the first place.

> Now that in many cases the cost is 0, it is completely unenforcable.

FWIW, cost is never 0. Network and computers cost money. There has
always been an infrastructure cost and a cost per copy. Now there only
remains the infrastructure cost.

Saying it has *no* cost is delusional. Tell it to the people that cannot
afford a computer.

Costly,
Nowhere man
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