Ebook Fraud
Even befor man could communicate mimicking was normal, it was we belive how communication developed. Also as man developed various methods of communications both immediate and delayed such as pictures, the spoken word, song and the written word mimicking or copying were normal.
It was the advent of the "printing press" that started to change things but it was not untill after the advent of sheet music and the age of the grammaphone that "duplication for profit" became a concern.
Since that time the costs of duplicating a "work" has dropped to the point where it is now effectivly negligable.
Unfortunatly many business models have been set up around the ownership of such works and one asspect was it was always assumed that "mass production" could only happen with specialised equipment.
The simple fact is that as technology has progressed the equipment for playing a "work" has for some time been effectivly the same as for recording a "work".
Unfortunatly rather than accept that this is the case and work towards new business models the old gaurd have done virtualy everything they can to play King Kunute...
As we know Google has tried to corner the market in "orphand works" and in many respects they have got away with it.
What we need to stop the parasites is anew business model that uses some other method of making their activities non profitable. However as we know from experiance legislation is not realy the answer.
Perhaps the solution lies in having "online only" systems but I think not, perhaps in "nano/ micro payments", perhaps "personalisation of content".
What ever it is we know historicaly all existing models have been effectivly broken by technology improvment and I fully expect this to continue...
The piracy for digital content is not logical for most people. companies are selling a content at high rates without even thinking about customers. If u sell 10 cars and if u sell 10 copy of software, its not the same thing. The Copy right law needs a modification in the world where everything is going to be digitized
