Because you didn’t make it. I’ll grant that western ideas about intellectual property are weird and inconsistent, but I’m taking it as a given that we hold that idea in common. If a writer writes something, that sequence of words in the order they wrote is their “property” and they get to determine who gets to see it.
I am cognizant that in this kind of space a lot of people probably won’t hold this view of intellectual property and there are good arguments as to why it shouldn’t exist at all. I suppose at this moment I’m not really in the mood to go down this rabbit hole, so forgive me if that is where you want to go.
I am cognizant that in this kind of space a lot of people probably won’t hold this view of intellectual property and there are good arguments as to why it shouldn’t exist at all. I suppose at this moment I’m not really in the mood to go down this rabbit hole, so forgive me if that is where you want to go.
fair, although i do think its a much more interesting topic :p
also you are def correct about the storefront thing, ill never understand why gamers are so in love with steam -_-
It’s running on my physical hardware, and you better damn be sure I’m the only person who gets to decide what my personal hardware does. DRM prevents the final owners of the hardware of making sure they know what’s happening on their own hardware.
If a writer writes something, that sequence of words in the order they wrote is their “property” and they get to determine who gets to see it.
Yes and no. They own it as far as they own the right to copy and distribute it, but they don’t get to determine who gets to see the individual copies. The people who own the copy decide on that. There’s literally no mechanism in the law that prevents people from reading someone else’s book. There’s one for creating copies though.
Imagine purchasing a book meant that instead of getting the book you allow the writer of that book to enter your private rooms and rummage them without you being around, with the promise that they’ll recite the book to you if you ask them and they’re in the mood. That’s what DRM more or less is.
That isn’t how we view writers at all though. Writers can refuse to sell you a physical book if they’ve made that, sure, but they can’t stop someone from selling you a used copy, or one that ended up in the hands of a library from being lent to you. They can’t stop you from sharing your copy of their book with a friend, or reading it to someone, even if they don’t want that someone to see it.
Because you didn’t make it. I’ll grant that western ideas about intellectual property are weird and inconsistent, but I’m taking it as a given that we hold that idea in common. If a writer writes something, that sequence of words in the order they wrote is their “property” and they get to determine who gets to see it.
I am cognizant that in this kind of space a lot of people probably won’t hold this view of intellectual property and there are good arguments as to why it shouldn’t exist at all. I suppose at this moment I’m not really in the mood to go down this rabbit hole, so forgive me if that is where you want to go.
fair, although i do think its a much more interesting topic :p also you are def correct about the storefront thing, ill never understand why gamers are so in love with steam -_-
It’s running on my physical hardware, and you better damn be sure I’m the only person who gets to decide what my personal hardware does. DRM prevents the final owners of the hardware of making sure they know what’s happening on their own hardware.
Yes and no. They own it as far as they own the right to copy and distribute it, but they don’t get to determine who gets to see the individual copies. The people who own the copy decide on that. There’s literally no mechanism in the law that prevents people from reading someone else’s book. There’s one for creating copies though.
Imagine purchasing a book meant that instead of getting the book you allow the writer of that book to enter your private rooms and rummage them without you being around, with the promise that they’ll recite the book to you if you ask them and they’re in the mood. That’s what DRM more or less is.
That isn’t how we view writers at all though. Writers can refuse to sell you a physical book if they’ve made that, sure, but they can’t stop someone from selling you a used copy, or one that ended up in the hands of a library from being lent to you. They can’t stop you from sharing your copy of their book with a friend, or reading it to someone, even if they don’t want that someone to see it.