Comment Re:Not Surprised (Score 1) 674
Protection is not needed for innovation. The incentive for the lone genius to spend his efforts inventing a great new thing from scratch may be diminished. But innovation works better when it is incremental. Evolution is smarter than the genius inventor. Recipes are like inventions, but they tend to be protected through trade secret and offered as a service. There is more variety and widespread examples of excellence in cooking than you would expect if your worries about the need for protection to foster innovation were true. There is definitely no shortage of cookbooks. There is no shortage of restaurants, grocery stores, and amateur cooks.
Cooking is not the only example. FOSS is another obvious example. Home decorating and home improvement seem to be flourishing without DRM. Of all things, legal contracts can be copied, but there is no shortage of lawyers you can pay a tidy sum to tailor a contract for your use. Science itself has developed quite well with a publish to get credit type of system.
I suggest that without DRM there is more innovation, more variety, more excellence, more follow on industries, and a larger economic pie to be shared by more people. All this, and there are still the rock star chefs, architects, lawyers, interior designers, and scientists.
Cooking is not the only example. FOSS is another obvious example. Home decorating and home improvement seem to be flourishing without DRM. Of all things, legal contracts can be copied, but there is no shortage of lawyers you can pay a tidy sum to tailor a contract for your use. Science itself has developed quite well with a publish to get credit type of system.
I suggest that without DRM there is more innovation, more variety, more excellence, more follow on industries, and a larger economic pie to be shared by more people. All this, and there are still the rock star chefs, architects, lawyers, interior designers, and scientists.
