Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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Originally Posted by ColdFusion View Post
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It's not about making profits! Never was!
Actually the point was to allow the original person credit for their own work and allow them to recoup their costs and investments! Also duplication of products in the mass market with little or no skill was not a problem when these mechanisms were introduced.

Originally Posted by ColdFusion View Post
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The problem until recently was that the only way to ensure innovation was to ensure profits. Nowadays that's no longer true, as one can see the vast amount of FOSS and CreativeCommons stuff being produced.
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This works for some revenue streams but not all. The right to choose free versions is fine, but not respecting the originators work and copying it when not allowed is not acceptable.

Originally Posted by ColdFusion View Post
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So if your interest in copyright lies solely on making profits, then you're doing it wrong!
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As soon as I can pay my bills and put food on the table without doing this then I will happily do so, until then....

Originally Posted by ColdFusion View Post
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Just wait some years until replication technology matures, and there's a RepRap in every home!
And this obviously works for no cost and no resources either, marevelous!