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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 1558636" data-attributes="member: 10913">Consider the academin world, where plagarism is a virtue and IP is unheared of. It has existed for hundreds of years and produced a fair amount of quality IP, thank you.Preservation of IP is not the only model to feed yourself. In a world without IP, other institutions could be established to support its production - from the patronage of the wealthy to trust funds.I do not think, however, anyone is seriously contending that IP should not be preserved; it is just that IP should not be draconically enforced or extended. Even in a world where file-sharing was perfectly legal, I am certain there will be lots of people that will prefer to purchase the books, and others who would be willing to pay for the pdfs (even when they can download them legally for free). And if the circustances were right, there would be others still that would be willing to set up funds to the support of the production of IP (for a similar real-world example, see <a href="http://www.strangehorizons.com/" target="_blank">strange horizons</a> ). To a large degree, we lived in such a world for a time - a world where file-sharing was illegal, but not punished. To a large degree we still do. That is not to say I am not sorry people are not getting paid for their hard work in producing the IP. Some way or another, they need to get paid for producing IP or they will indeed slow down if not stop completely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yair, post: 1558636, member: 10913"] Consider the academin world, where plagarism is a virtue and IP is unheared of. It has existed for hundreds of years and produced a fair amount of quality IP, thank you. Preservation of IP is not the only model to feed yourself. In a world without IP, other institutions could be established to support its production - from the patronage of the wealthy to trust funds. I do not think, however, anyone is seriously contending that IP should not be preserved; it is just that IP should not be draconically enforced or extended. Even in a world where file-sharing was perfectly legal, I am certain there will be lots of people that will prefer to purchase the books, and others who would be willing to pay for the pdfs (even when they can download them legally for free). And if the circustances were right, there would be others still that would be willing to set up funds to the support of the production of IP (for a similar real-world example, see [URL=http://www.strangehorizons.com/]strange horizons[/URL] ). To a large degree, we lived in such a world for a time - a world where file-sharing was illegal, but not punished. To a large degree we still do. That is not to say I am not sorry people are not getting paid for their hard work in producing the IP. Some way or another, they need to get paid for producing IP or they will indeed slow down if not stop completely. [/QUOTE]

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