Shane Wrote:
"Not allowing people to make money on digital content is dictating freedoms."

• Controlling what people can and cannot transfer to and from an Apple device, is dictating freedoms.
• Telling people they cannot sell something they paid for with thier own money, is dictating freedoms.
• Putting laws in place to protect this scum, is dictating freedoms.

Shane Wrote:
"Who's going to pay for that book to be published? Or the cd or record?"

The person who plans to make money on their book, CD, or Record, obviously.
The mentality people have of thinking the world owes them something for nothing, is a major part of the problem.

Shane Wrote:
"Where are the resources going to come from?"

Because we have a functioning economy, we have more resources here than you can shake a stick at, you'd be spoilt for choice ;-)

Shane Wrote:
"Or a blog writer."

What makes you think a blog writer would be effected?  All a blog writer does is write blogs, and there is nothing in the Law of Automation that says a person cannot use a digital service.  The blogger can continue to blog to their hearts content.  As long as they don't sell access to their blog (which is vitual), they won't be prosecuted.  If the blogger wishes to make money (and this is encouraged) there is nothing stopping them using their own blog to promote their own pysically available books or whatever their interests are.  Every physical book they get manufactured, contributes to our economy - and that's what I'm promoting.  Only the authour and every business involved in making the physical product happen, will gain something from it - and that's the way it should be - and that's all you should expect - the world owes you nothing.

Shane Wrote:
"Or a software engineer.
Or a web developer."

As was pointed out, the Law of Automation allows for things that would otherwise be impossible.  A software developer can advertise their software on their website.  They can offer demos or complete software products for free, there is no restriction on freedom.  What they cannot do is charge for it without also dispatching a physical copy that can be resold at the owners choice.  And before you ask, yes, software licences that restrict transfer are illegal here, and any copy protection must not hold the purchaser for ransom.  If they cannot use what they purchased without having to surrender private data to the publisher, the product is illegal and cannot be sold to a citizen of England.  There is nothing you can spend your money on that you cannot sell if you wanted to, that's how it should be and that's how it's going to reman.  Doesn't matter whether it's a product or a licenced product - it's totally irrelevant.  If you pay for something, it's yours and you are entitled to sell it if you wish to do so without the publisher having any contol over stopping the act or crippling the use of it.  Software publishers that have a problem with this simple premise, are advised to find an alternaticve form of business, one they will be happy with.

Web development is like a service or job and can be treated as such.  You can get paid for developing for the web, no problem, but you can't get paid for using what was developed, to break the Law of Automation by selling virtual products.  In my eyes, automation is the biggest killer to any economy, and non-tangible goods made possible by the digital platform, only serve to amplify the situation to unsustainable levels.

In a nutshell, that's what you have right now, and it's the result of that you're having to live with.