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Ironically, Bronfman's vision is closest still only in the piracy world as legitimate licensing requires too much organizational buy-offs to ever be universal.

Ironically, Bronfman's vision is closest still only in the piracy world as legitimate licensing requires too much organizational buy-offs to ever be universal. Interestingly, services like spotify could have only come about after pressure from piracy because the industry would never have conceded such control and monetary loss unless forced to. Now comes the next wave: video which popcorntime will help force the path. It's remarkable that progress can be achieved mostly through breaking regulation theses day - there's something these services have in common with uber and airbnb.

hoopd 11y ago
Of course piracy better solves the distribution problem, distribution is easy. Copyright helps solve the problem of artist compensation. That problem's hard but ask any artist* who isn't living off a trust fund and they'll tell you how important it is. If you skip the hard part by definition you've made things easier on yourself. If the community of music listeners took better care of musicians then they wouldn't run to the arms of the music industry. Unfortunately music listeners want and expect free or near-free. > It's remarkable that progress can be achieved mostly through breaking regulation theses day Not to be offensive but I think it's completely uninteresting. Human decency has always slowed progress. Which empire obeyed the laws of the lands it invaded? Think of how our medical knowledge would progress if we abandoned all ethics, or how efficient our criminal justice system could be if we abandoned due process, how much oil we could drill or ore we could mine if we abandoned environmental regulations. We don't do these things because local actors pursuing locally optimal solutions don't always benefit the group. In fact it's possible for the opposite to happen like in The Tragedy of the Commons. IOW I dislike regulations too but they solve problems we don't have better solutions for. *who you know well enough to ask personal questions

hoopd 11y ago

Of course piracy better solves the distribution problem, distribution is easy. Copyright helps solve the problem of artist compensation. That problem's hard but ask any artist* who isn't living off a trust fund and they'll tell you how important it is. If you skip the hard part by definition you've made things easier on yourself. If the community of music listeners took better care of musicians then they wouldn't run to the arms of the music industry. Unfortunately music listeners want and expect free or near-free. > It's remarkable that progress can be achieved mostly through breaking regulation theses day Not to be offensive but I think it's completely uninteresting. Human decency has always slowed progress. Which empire obeyed the laws of the lands it invaded? Think of how our medical knowledge would progress if we abandoned all ethics, or how efficient our criminal justice system could be if we abandoned due process, how much oil we could drill or ore we could mine if we abandoned environmental regulations. We don't do these things because local actors pursuing locally optimal solutions don't always benefit the group. In fact it's possible for the opposite to happen like in The Tragedy of the Commons. IOW I dislike regulations too but they solve problems we don't have better solutions for. *who you know well enough to ask personal questions