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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4915392" data-attributes="member: 5143">I really shouldn't get involved in this again.  But this is the key, and the reason why there is so much problem with Copyright and IP these days.  Information is becoming more important to society, people are attempting to charge for information but it's a virtual impossibility to control information.The simplest example of this is if I make up something...let's say the sentence: "The sky is blue." and I say "This sentence is mine, no one else can use it.  You must buy it from me if you want to say it, use it in your writing or anything else."There is no way for me to control the spread of that information.  People can tell each other that sentence without every contacting me, for free, easily.  The only way I can stop people from saying that sentence is by creating laws to stop people from using it and suing them if they do.Unfortunately(or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), technology has allowed books, movies, schematics, music, and many, many other things that used to be physical object into information in the same way that sentence is information.  And it's just as easy to copy a book as it is to say the sentence.I still think that the entire economy will have to change to be in line with technology and that right now it is simply a matter of time.  At some point in the future, I believe that all of these things will no longer be charged for and will be entirely free.  Companies whose business involves producing this type of content will instead find alternate revenue streams.</blockquote>

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