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Re: Supply and Demand said by Rekrul:said by MyDogHsFleas:So is putting material in paper money that makes it look different when copied "essentially breaking the proper functioning of a copy machine"? which has been "the core function of copy machines since they were first invented"? And is this "at odds with what it was designed to do"? That's only one specific example and it would have made a better analogy if you had mentioned the fact that some copiers are specifically design to refuse to copy money. It wasn't an analogy, it was a refutation of your argument, by pointing out how absurd it is when applied to something else.
And, you make my exact point by noting that copiers are designed to refuse to copy money. Therefore, copying money is, in fact, NOT "a core function of a copy machine". Because, look! I can make a copy machine that doesn't copy money! And it still copies other things! I DIDN'T BREAK THE COPY MACHINE!
Now, can I go in and bypass the technical capability the machine has and make it copy money? Probably, given enough time and effort. But am I doing this on a large scale, publishing my findings, and declaring to all that I'm doing this on principle and it's a good thing because I'm just enabling "the nature of a copy machine"? No, I don't. So why do you, when the subject is the Internet?
But what if the publishing industry demanding a legal solution to prevent people from copying or scanning books? Coming up with a printed page that can be easily read, but which can't be copied would be expensive and virtually impossible. So far the only solution they've come up with for making documents uncopyable is to use black ink on dark paper, which also makes them very hard to read.
The only workable method would to have the copier connect to a central database every time you scan something to compare the hash of what you've scanned with a list of know hashes for copyrighted works and refuse to work if it matches something on the list. Of course such a system would have a high failure rate, false positives and wouldn't account for fair use, essentially breaking the core functionality of the machine, but hey if it keeps people from copying copyrighted material, it's worth it. Right?
said by MyDogHsFleas:Not really relevant to the topic. But, I'll come back on your analogy with what the music distributors would say, which has some validity. Shoplifting one CD is a loss of 10 bucks or whatever. Putting that CD on MegaUpload or Pirate Bay is like shoplifting the entire store's inventory of that CD. Bigger crime. You mean like the crime of leaking the workprint of the movie Wolverine a month before it hit theaters, causing the film to only make a pathetic $373 million at the box office?
As a side comment... maybe they leaked it themselves to stoke publicity! It could happen.... |
