https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dean-baker-the-market-is-not-the-problem/2009/07/27 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dean-baker-the-market-is-not-the-problem/2009/07/27/comment-page-1#comment-416017 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:27:45 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=4068#comment-416017 Excellent post, especially on the issue of copyright protection. It’s a sticky issue for authors and publishers. We don’t see copyright as a form of government protection or interference– most of us see it as a God-given right. But of course it’s not. Just a short trip over the border to Mexico and you can see 10 vendors on every street corner selling bootlegs of DVD movies that are still in the theatres in the US. But what is the answer? I wouldn’t want to do business in a country that didn’t offer copyright protection for my work. It would make it impossible for me to produce a product that would sell. I don’t know the solution. But I know that all of my profits come from American buyers.

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