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Originally posted by Leonis:
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Originally posted by Sir Krustin:
I just read an article that pretty much nails my opinion of copy protection versus online piracy right on the head, well worth reading!
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Good article, but you have to take into account that book reading online has only a small fraction of the usership that music online does.
Also to the best of my knowledge, countries like China aren't mass producing illegal copies of English language texts...[/QUOTE]THe other thing is, with Book reading online, you aren't injecting the medium into you in the same manner as you would with a book, You're tied to your computer screen. You don't actually HAVE the book.
With a copied CD, you DO have the medium. There is no difference between listening to a pirated CD to an authentic one.
This is why tapes were never such a big deal. A copied tape lost quality. Tapes didn't sound the same as records anyway. It was a reduced experience. With CDs, the copying is near instantaneous, the quality to human ears unaffected. It's a bigger deal.