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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
Hi Dana,
I apreciate your straight point. I would slightly disagree and would encourage to read the entire thread to understand the point. As described above it is technically allowed by law. Ethically I don't have the answer as clear as you have. I fear this is a gray area, regardless we like it or not. Just to clarify: this is only an open (and I think important) exercise. I own books, downloads, DVD's and props for thousands of Euros and I am not intending to share any digital download with anyone. Cheers! Andrea
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danaruns Special user The City of Angels 808 Posts |
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On Jun 28, 2018, andrea.corelli wrote: I read the whole thread before posting. I think the answer is simple, if we're being completely honest with ourselves. NO. It's not ethical. And I don't concede that it's legal, either (I'm an attorney), which is a separate question.
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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
Thanks Dana, your opinion is crystal clear .
Would love to hear some more professionals about it too, if you don't mind .
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PaulPosition New user 59 Posts |
Dematerialization is a young concept and it's experiencing all sorts of growing pains.
At some point, either the virtual, licensed "material" will get cheaper (more than half the price of the corresponding book or dvd with no manufacturing, no distribution, no shelving? please...) or DRM technology will allow transfer of ownership (yeah, right!) or that dematerialized sh** will go the way of the dodo. |
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EvilClown New user Richmond, VA 74 Posts |
This is interesting to me and raises some questions.
People buy and sell physical copyrighted material all day long. I have bought used books. GameStop has built a national retail chain primarily on the resale of physical copies of used video games. No one looks twice at this even though the sales of used intellectual property clearly deny the copyright holder any of the income from the resell of their work. The assumption that allows for this legality is that, in theory, the seller no longer has access to the copyrighted material that he has sold. The book or game is no longer in the original owner's possession, provided they have not made a copy of the material they have sold. Assuming the above, wouldn't it be legal to sell a download to someone provided that the original owner deleted all copies of the files in their possession? If I take the download, place it on a flashdrive and sell it, and delete and copies I owned, is that any different than reselling a DVD? But aside from that, can we assume that people who are selling physical media are not making copies? Are we sure that people selling DVDs didn't rip a copy before putting them up for sale? Are we sure they didn't scan the book before reselling it? My point in all this we make assumptions about the security of copyright when transferring physical media that may not even exist, but will not apply those same standards to digital media. I create a ton of content in my day job and I try to uphold the copyright law for my own protection, but the law is way behind reality at this point. There are tons of magic books waiting for unethical people to download on ScribD right now. You can torrent magic DVDs. People throw stuff on YouTube all day and night. The copyright system is fundamentally incapable of dealing with the realities of the internet and of duplication equipment. Content creators need new and better ways to protect their intellectual property and their incomes. I just do not know what it is other than hoping people will act ethically-something I am not convinced is working. |
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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
Hey Clown,
thanks for taking part in this discussion. You are probably right, there is no real way to protect intellectual property just yet. The only effective way is proven to be to surpass the "a la cart" model in favour of the "all you can eat" model. In this case the user would not buy a digital content, but would rather buy the service of streaming that content (along with many more) for a period of time. But what I would like to stop is on the below sentence: Quote:
Assuming the above, wouldn't it be legal to sell a download to someone provided that the original owner deleted all copies of the files in their possession? If I take the download, place it on a flashdrive and sell it, and delete and copies I owned, is that any different than reselling a DVD? This technically violates the copyright as you would not be allowed to change the media you buy a download from. While to me it sounds etichally correct, if you want to be strict about the pure low on the "copyright" concept, the only way to make it work is to download the file DIRECTLY onto that flashdrive, without stepping on your local hard drive before.
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Vater Araignee Regular user MI 172 Posts |
Https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/......tudy.pdf
Conclusion of the above study: Excepting recently released blockbusters, there isn't evidence supporting the idea of online copyright infringement displacing sales. The result of the study is not unique, it is consistent with previous studies. I'm not making a legality argument with that, I'm just pointing out "The creator looses money" argument is a bull fart if not BS. People who are going to steal are going to steal and some thieves aren't thieves at all, they are attempting to make an informed purchase. If it wasn't for a second hand recording of Kill 'Em All I would have never purchased any Metallica considering I never heard them on the radio until 92 (im not saying they weren't played before then) and honestly if Metallicas "Meh, its OK... I guess" album "Metallica" had been my first exposure I never would have given them a dime. Instead that one pirated copy cause me to buy: Kill 'Em All, and 2 replacements Ride the Lightning, and 1 replacement Master of Puppets, and 7 replacements ...And Justice for All, and 1 replacement Metallica Load The self title and Load caused me to stop buying and I wish I had not purchased Load because it is pure junk. I heard some of Death Magnetic in the car one day and got excited "METALLICA IS BACK!" after buying it I regretted it. No matter what I play it in, it sounds like the speakers are buried in mud. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not only owed my money back for the album but for the gas money and time wasted listening to the crap. Knowing all of this I unfortunately haven't convinced myself to preview magic releases (I've learned to spot deceptive advertising better) but if I ever do then Steve Fearson and Robert Smith (just to name a couple) might have a chance at getting me to make another purchase. As it stands they will never see a single red cent from me because I don't like getting burnt. If I released one of my creations, I would rather 10 people split the cost verses never making the sale at all. History has shown us people freaking out that X is going to take money out of peoples pockets (more like never put it in) and then people adapt and are the better for it. Maybe it is time for creators to adapt, the tools are out there.
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Vater Araignee Regular user MI 172 Posts |
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On Jun 30, 2018, andrea.corelli wrote: Unfortunately you can not bypass the hard drive, you only appear to bypass it. Just like a single processor computer can not truly multitask it only gives the illusion of multitasking through speed.
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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
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On Jul 4, 2018, Vater Araignee wrote: This has been used in court a few times in Italy and proven to be completely acceptable on the legal front. You are not changing media. And honestly I see no technical reason why a file you are downloading onto a flashdrive directly shall pass by the HD. bits would travel to the RAM and then land directly on the Flash drive as the Operating system would not see any difference between the your HD or a flash drive or an external HD.
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Vater Araignee Regular user MI 172 Posts |
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On Jul 4, 2018, andrea.corelli wrote: The downloading file always goes to the drive that the operating system resides on first (unless you have manually changed it in the registry or its equivalent) either in whole or in part depending upon size and then is transferred to the designated location from there automatically, giving the illusion that it went directly to the designated location. Now this illusion my be good enough for a court as it rightly should be, but claiming that is bypassing the drive is false. It is a standard that hasnt changed because it is tried and true and going from ram to location would see no appreciable gains wile adding to pointlessly paying someone to change the programming. You would be amazed to find out how much programming still remains from what we would call in computer terms "ancient" versions of operating systems because you should never fix what isn't broken and for some things developers actually don't fix what isn't broken.
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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
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On Jul 4, 2018, Vater Araignee wrote: I am afraid this is, in the best case, very inaccurate. Since 2010 browsers won't use any temp space for downloading (and this is not so low level to involve the operating system) as much as most OS (including OSX if properly tweaked) can run from a read only file system and thus not being able to write any other media than the one(s) you specify. No offence, but I suggest you one good reading on the subject if you want to get deeper into this: Abraham Silberschatz "Operating System Concepts". This is considered the bible of Operating Systems concepts. It's a bit expensive, but it's very complete and I found it a pretty enjoyable reading except for the first dozen of pages which is about very basic notions that anyone approacing science of the information probably masters already. Anyway, back to the ethical point, without annoying the readers too much about tech stuff . As much as I don't stand by your point that piracy does not displace sales (there are plenty of articles with data that support the exact opposite thesis), I completely agree with your sentence "If I released one of my creations, I would rather 10 people split the cost verses never making the sale at all.". This is what the music industry, for example, has been rapidly adapting to and even though I think magic, as all small nieches, will not fully find its way in this direction, something with all the "all you can eat" subscription based stores is already changing. Time will tell if it's for good or for bad. In this very moment, though, the question remains: would it be ethically correct to share cost and ownership of a digital download, as much as I strongly feel it is about a physical good?
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Vater Araignee Regular user MI 172 Posts |
Well then something is very wrong with my copy of windows 10 considering my hd usage logs show it bobbing up and down during downloads from the net to my sd cards. Anyway...
If one is going to take issue with sharing the cost of digital media and call it unethical, they should also be calling libraries unethical. They wont because they are use to libraries, even though it is 1 sale with hundreds if not thousands of readers. What about teams? Do they expect every person involved to buy their own copy of a download, dvd, book etc? 1 purchaser, multiple readers/viewers. Lets really turn this into a truly ethical discussion. I'll start by pointing out what ethics are not.
Now that we have fee fees, laws and norms out of the way, what ethical approach/s should be taken?
Keeping in mind what ethics isn't and using as many ethical approaches as possible, clearly explain why cost sharing is or is not ethical. Who is the victim if there is one at all? As a personal exorcise, try to find as many and as few as possible under each type, it can make your final argument stronger because you may spot flaws you need to work out.
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jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts |
What libraries have collections of e-Books?
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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
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On Jul 5, 2018, jimgerrish wrote: In my area most nowadays.
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Vater Araignee Regular user MI 172 Posts |
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On Jul 5, 2018, jimgerrish wrote: In the last 5 years I haven't been to a Carnegie library that didn't and my local library network has them also.
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EvilClown New user Richmond, VA 74 Posts |
The public library here in Richmond, VA has its own app for allowing residents to access ebooks. Plenty of releases from the past year available to borrow through their app.
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Vater Araignee Regular user MI 172 Posts |
I'll also point out that we aren't just limited to ebooks. We have access to movies, tv shows and audio books.
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On Jul 5, 2018, EvilClown wrote: Does that app behave like ours and after X days you have to "recheckout" the title or you can't access it?
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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
Archive.org also allows US citizen to "borrow" scans of out of print material with non-expired copyrights. Unfortunately we don't have any such thing in Italy (or in Europe to my knowledge), but it's just because the US is ahead of us in terms of technological progress .
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andrea.corelli Regular user Milano area, Italy 107 Posts |
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On Jul 5, 2018, Vater Araignee wrote: There is no connection between your HD activity and your network activity. If you want specs we can continue this in private, I feel like annoying the rest of the readers ;-). Quote:
On Jul 5, 2018, Vater Araignee wrote: Now I really like where this discussion is going. Thanks a lot for the deep analysis. Love it! I would always reply "Utilitarian". Borrowed from echonomics, I try (not always succeed though: emothins are a bad beast sometimes) to use it as in every situation in life. Curious to know what is the rest of the community thinking about it.
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Vater Araignee Regular user MI 172 Posts |
Andrea.corelli,
I just thought of something, maybe not "All you can eat" but something more like a cross between libraries and audible? Say $10.00 a month.
You could even have a section called Magic TV, the viewer would have zero control over what is playing and it could be advertisement driven say 4, 15 second blocks every 15 minutes unskipable. edit to add: For got to say "Additional screens like Netflix or full access account like Amazon"
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