Digital Copyrights

Given current advances in the internet and communication technology, paying for content is such a thing of the past. I bought a ruby on rails book a while ago and that was a mistake. By the time the book arrived through the mail it was already outdated with the release of Rails 2.0 and none of the examples would work. Sure I could install the older version just so the examples would work but it doesn't do me any good to learn the old version not after all the new advances that have been made in that language. I'd do better with online tutorials. People don't really want to wait until the next morning anymore for their newspaper to arrive they want their news now when it happens. I think there will still be a place for creative works, but authors and distributors are going to have to change their business models. Video clips can be viewed online and there are plenty of radio stations streaming music that I like. I record my movies from cable and have my computer cut out the commercials for me. With all these ways of getting free content legally I don't need to resort to the file sharing of copyrighted works. I can watch what I want and then if there's something that I really like I can buy it in order to have a high quality copy.