Re: Is Copyright Dead?

From: "bczygan"

> I've been watching the tides flow to and fro on this site. 
> Discussions about copyright and DRM etc. I wonder if you 
> are talking about defending the city walls when the city 
> has already been taken. I see a younger generation that 
> has taken over the mantle of making our future society and 
> they aren't us. Their brains tick on the net. They twitter 
> and facebook. They are a much more homogeneous group. I 
> see a lot less of an Ayn Rand attitude from them and much 
> more cooperative working styles. I don't know how they 
> intend to work and get paid for it, but I'm sure it will 
> be different. What do you guys see?
>
> Bill
>

Bill,

I see a sense of adventure and the same sense of changing 
the world that every generation in its teens and twenties 
has. Yet basic attitudes and philosophies are amazingly 
similarly distributed from generation to generation.

And don't confuse net static with real activity. Some people 
are what one might call 'Netters'! Others hardly touch 
computers or utilise the spread of activities possible on 
the net. In between are spread out the rest of us.

But the stats for use of the net show some surprising 
things. Major use is with the over 50s, who are also major 
in the freebie world! And I have seen quoted a figure of 
something like 0.0004% for ebooks against print sales. That 
hardly seems to support any of the arguments about the print 
book or copyright being dead.

Of course DRM was an experiment that failed utterly; 
Photoshop, almost from the first, cottoned on to the fact 
that tracking was the more sensible way to seek to control 
usage. Many things will be tried and at this stage most will 
fail or have to be substantially altered. Newspapers are 
being forced to think their presence on the net, and how to 
charge for online content.

With such an increased potential for '1984' and 'Brave New 
World' the need for a highly effective media world is 
paramount, and the need to pay will be recognised. Mass 
sales are the most likely means to continue; probably not 
much changed in either technology [i.e. printed], or in 
basic structire; hopefully ownerships will be with real 
newspapermen, rather than the vultures for profit.

Joseph Harris 



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