“Fred Bloggs took my design for a pen, and printed it out. Ban repraps now before it destroys innovation!!”

“We purposefully came up with a part for our latest product that will not accept parts from other manufacturers. Fred Bloggs printed out a converter and will destroy our business model!!”

Give it time people, give it time.

By the way I want a 3D printer.

“Fred Bloggs took my design for a pen, and printed it out. Ban repraps now before it destroys innovation!!”

“We purposefully came up with a part for our latest product that will not accept parts from other manufacturers. Fred Bloggs printed out a converter and will destroy our business model!!”

Give it time people, give it time.

By the way I want a 3D printer.

On the few occasions I saw before giving up on the site, when they asked readers to “Have Your Say” on piracy-related topics, any user-comments left on site that appeared to condone piracy (or even suggest a compromise) were censored completely out of existence by the moderators. I couldn’t tell you exactly why – the only explanation ever given for moderation is that a given comment “breaks the house rules”. The last time I saw them ask the question, they gave up and simply cancelled the entire topic and all comments after about half an hour. I haven’t bothered to go back to the site since then.

Perhaps, one day, they’ll put someone in charge with a bit of common sense.

“If your business plan counts on copying going down it’s the wrong business plan. It just won’t work.

“What you’ll do instead is finding yourself locked in an arms race with the people who you’re hoping to sell things to.”

Politicians MUST get the law of copyright amended and updated to reflect fairly and properly the changes in technology called “the internet”. Fascist policies to restrict freedom of speech or to share files for non-commercial purposes simply aint gonna work other than to keep misery levels at an otherwise avoidable high.

Well said Cory D. and thanks to TF for this important heads-up.

True comment… “Computers Are Never Going to get Worse at Copying Things”

Once something is a number it can be reproduced infinitly with zero degradation.
Thats all Digital information is……. a number.(usually + millions of digits long)

What Cory Doctorow says about , having a good business model makes sharing irrelevent , is also sensible.( i’m paraphrasing )
As I stated before : …….. Applies for all the media industries….

Basiclly the product is good…. it sells.
The business model is good….it makes profit.

iF….it doesn’t make profit…. the business model is fuked.
iF…..it doesn’t sell… the product is fuk-shit.

eg….
Spending 1 million dollars to make a book TODAY…..
is a bad business model…. Doesn’t matter how good the product is.

The industries keep clinging to the past business models, that work… … ….. well they worked…. in the past.

Evolve a new business model or die ! .. Because……. . . .

“Computers Are Never Going to get Worse at Copying Things”