Copyrights, DRM, businesses and the future.

Just go and ask "Why DRM and copyrights are bad?" on /. or similiar crowed and
you will be burried under countless reasons.
Today i am just going to add one more to the pool.....
"Future"

The reasoning goes something like this. Today everyone copyrights a material, which basically means you can not reproduce it. There is an unmentioned diversion to the above restriction, which is for now quite obvious, that is you can reproduce it in you brains. You can veiw the movie you, can listen to
the music and you can see the paitning without much problem. You are also not restricted from recalling it ofcourse. Although brain is a form of an electronic storage, preventing reproduction inside brain will be just stupid. The business model works quite well right now mainly due to volatile nature of our memories.

The problem I spot however begins sometime 40-50 years from now. Biophisists
are already very successfull in interfacing brain paths to the electronic
circuits. Many blinds are being given expreimental vision by hooking a CCD
on to their visual neuropaths.Very soon there will be a stadardisation in
nero-tronic interface making it possible to manufacture tons of different
brain-aids. Its not too long before the braincap implant envisioned in
the SPACE ODESSY 3001 is brought to reality, atleast a striped down version
of it inside few MIT labs or something.

So when we finally get a few terabytes of memory sitting to aid our brains in
a seamless fashion, when we can recall what we have seen, heard or
expereienced in the exact same way again and again and again without needing any external device but only a few implants. How the hell are people going to enforce copyrights? all one will have to do is just watch a video once and be done with it. And furthermore if a communication is also aided by some addons to our brains the distribution of such material will be unstoppable. Its going to spread through the oldest p2p protocol existent on earth namely personal contact. What are they going to do? ban freindships and social networks? In short, soon (well that about 100-200 years but still) copyright is going to be a thing of past. So MPAA, RIAA watch out, your time is about to end. And no lawsuit is going to stop that.

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BAIN
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