Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.::NFTs had a huge bull run two years ago, with billions of dollars per month in trading volume, but now most have crashed to zero, a study found.
DRM =/= fair to the consumer.
DRM as a concept seeks to limit your digital rights. Any DRM of any kind is a form of punishment to the consumer. You bought it, it should be yours to do with in perpetuity as you please.
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People can buy multiple copies if so they wish to. Most digital sellers are perfectly happy to charge you multiple times for things you technically already own. Artificial scarcity by way of limiting a digital good is unethical.
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If I buy an e-book I should be able to read it on any device I want. If I purchase software I should be able to install it and use it on as many devices I own that I want.
it really do be as simple as that. computers made data effortless to reproduce and distribute yet people are unironically against it because publishers don’t get to profit off every single copy.
You can’t buy a book, print off a ton of copies, and then sell those copies. You can do whatever you want with your book, lend out, give it away, but you’re not allowed to profit off it.
Ask yourself who do these IP laws protect.
Hint: It’s not you or the writer.
Sure you are. You’re allowed to sell it to a book store, and if it’s somehow more valuable than what you paid when you bought it, you profit.
You can’t make copies and then sell those copies to the book store
Legally I cannot, but physically the book does not come with a device that prevents me from doing so.
That’s why you get paid up front for your work.
We should worry more about what corporations are doing with people’s work, than what individuals are doing with what they’ve paid for.
Or simply, if someone’s profiting off of someone else’s work, then worry about the rules.
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Copyright only exists to serve society, to promote the creation of content. It’s not about restricting anything, other than as far as it helps more people create, more creation happen. Corporations stomping on individuals does not promote creation.
DRM could be fair to the consumer, it just isn’t in the interests of the publishers to make it so, and as a result the versions of it we have are not fair to the consumer.
DRM certainly can’t be fair as long as it’s illegal to circumvent.