I came to the conviction that digital artworks, any form of digital property, really, needs a public clearinghouse.
You simply shouldn't be allowed to sell any digital license for a product you didn't register at that clearinghouse before. The task of that clearinghouse would be to provide the customer with the bought content in case of dispute or any other problems. So if, e.g, Amazon goes out of business, all my books would be available for me to download from said clearinghouse because I own the license. Same for steam games or Disney videos.
Many (but not all) of the problems with DRM or copyrighted works would vanish if we established this legal requirement.
Nowadays digital stores sell you the privilege to get access to said content, you own shit.
Making virtually unlimited profit on a limited initial amount of time, labour, costs is what's evil here. "X number of years" argument will never solve it (the shorter the worst the hype push will get).
Should be capped by a function of said time, labour invested plus costs and allowed profit adjusted for inflation.
I don't care how much one thinks he deserves to milk such work/invention. Look at what Nikola Tesla gave us and what he got in return.
You simply shouldn't be allowed to sell any digital license for a product you didn't register at that clearinghouse before. The task of that clearinghouse would be to provide the customer with the bought content in case of dispute or any other problems. So if, e.g, Amazon goes out of business, all my books would be available for me to download from said clearinghouse because I own the license. Same for steam games or Disney videos.
Many (but not all) of the problems with DRM or copyrighted works would vanish if we established this legal requirement.