Being reduced to pure dependence on goodwill when every other player in the economic system can also depend on the force of law
The force of law is dependent on goodwill. And it isn't as though the force of law isn't being used in copyright. In this case, the threat of the misuse of law was enough to make the ISP shut down the service.
Also, I would say that of the artists, musicians and writers I know, the vast majority treat the recent developments in digital copying as something to be explored and used as inspiration, not as some kind of existential threat.
[edit] at a guess, I would say that there has probably been more money made by authors writing about the internet, than has been lost to authors through piracy on the internet, if only because geeks tend to collect massive dead-tree libraries, even when they own a kindle.
The force of law is dependent on goodwill. And it isn't as though the force of law isn't being used in copyright. In this case, the threat of the misuse of law was enough to make the ISP shut down the service.
Also, I would say that of the artists, musicians and writers I know, the vast majority treat the recent developments in digital copying as something to be explored and used as inspiration, not as some kind of existential threat.
[edit] at a guess, I would say that there has probably been more money made by authors writing about the internet, than has been lost to authors through piracy on the internet, if only because geeks tend to collect massive dead-tree libraries, even when they own a kindle.