Copy protection, like all rules, are made up based on the presumption that someone somewhere has milicious intent and therefore everyone has to be punished for it. As usual it ends up being the lowest demoninator that gets enforced and applies to everyone regardless of their interests.
I say you need to `decouple` the concept of sharing/access from the concept of payment. If you want your product to spread, it has to be open and shareable - it must have freedom and it must be able to give freedom to others. But this somehow needs to be allowed to occur while also being able to bring in some money from it. That's the hard part because it's kind of a mix of two incompatible minsets.
There is also protection in the absence of defence, but I can see we'll spin off into a philosophical discussion again.
I say you need to `decouple` the concept of sharing/access from the concept of payment. If you want your product to spread, it has to be open and shareable - it must have freedom and it must be able to give freedom to others. But this somehow needs to be allowed to occur while also being able to bring in some money from it. That's the hard part because it's kind of a mix of two incompatible minsets.
There is also protection in the absence of defence, but I can see we'll spin off into a philosophical discussion again.