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Re: DRM technology and policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John S. Denker)
Tue Apr 22 14:45:41 2003
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:23:25 -0400
From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@monmouth.com>
To: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
Peter Clay <pete@flatline.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <87he8qzpbc.fsf@meo-dipt.andreas.org>
On 04/22/2003 08:31 AM, Andreas Bogk wrote in part:
>
> Making a copy of something is no longer a
> scarce resource. DRM is nothing but a try to keep it scarce for a
> little longer.
On 04/22/2003 09:06 AM, Peter Clay wrote in part:
>
> I'm sure that if candy
> could be produced with zero _marginal_ cost, there would be free candy
> stores.
Please get a clue. Copyright isn't about the
scarcity of copying or the marginal cost thereof.
Never has been.
Copyright is about recouping the _fixed_ costs. This
is necessary in general, and particularly important
when the market is of limited size, so that the fixed
cost per unit is significant in absolute terms.
http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html#section8
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