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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4685129" data-attributes="member: 30936">Only if the owners choose to sell it for a dime a film. Which in some cases they might. In may cases, especially for newer, popular works they won't because people will pay more for it.Old != worthless or valueless. As for pricing, just like everything else you pay what the seller is willing to sell it for. Why should this change just because you thing it's worthless? If it's too much for you, don't buy it.Uh huh. Copyright or patents and rights to the plans in question will still be worth money, even with nano-fabrication. There's been a number of works examining this. That's the case in the US, and probably a lot of other countries. That's copyright at work too.You need to get over your hate of corporations. They, as a theoretical entity, are amoral, not immoral. They are certainly not evil. People running them can be immoral. Usually they're just stupid and short sighted though. Your subscription scheme, which already exists from a number of artists and publishers, doesn't cut corporations out of the picture. Printed books will, in all likely hood, never fully disappear. They may be relegated to art, but printed books aren't going away soon, or in the forseeable future. I happen to read most of my stuff on my netbook or Palm, but still find hardcopy books ejonyable.True. Content companies need to focus on counterfiting counterfiting operations and adjusting their price structure and accept that a certain amount of piracy will happen. Baen books decided to go this way and seems to be doing quite well.So, the materials used in manufacturing storage devices aren't limited? Energy isn't limited?</blockquote>

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