I agree that diversity for it's own sake is a questionable goal. However one problem with not counting is becoming blind to any real discrimination problem.
"take a valuable good...and deliver it to third parties who are not in privity with the copyright owners"
Sounds like they are making the argument that every turntable, tapedeck, and CD player should have been build and sold by the record companies. Phrase it that way and no one would agree with them.
When did the term "whitewash" start meaning racist and stop referring to censorship or covering up of the unsavory? The English language is great at coming up with new words,we need to stop repurposing old terms with well defined usage.
The great benefit of mirrors is that they preserve depth perception, and furthermore you can move your head slightly to get a better angle to view something. In short cameras suck because of loss of parallax.
One reason I can think of is that journals offer a sort of legitimacy, both through peer review and having to uphold their own reputation. There's no reason this couldn't be done with open papers as well, but there would have to be some sort of organization to the process.
That kind of setup might make the most sense, but it's been used successfully by one franchise(the Predator movies) so now anyone else using it would be seen as a copycat.
