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This made me think of a quote which turns out to be from a Clay Shirky essay (http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html http://www.shirky.com/writings
by randombit 17y ago
This made me think of a quote which turns out to be from a Clay Shirky essay (http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html)
"It may be time to dust off that old issue of Wired, because the RIAA is succeeding where 10 years of hectoring by the Cypherpunks failed. [...] Note that the broadening adoption of encryption is not because users have become libertarians, but because they have become criminals; to a first approximation, every PC owner under the age of 35 is now a felon."
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoOn the other side of the ledger we find this famous quote from Tim O'Reilly: > Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html
- mrcharles 17y agoYeah. I've never seen any solid stats, and I hate using my gut as an information source, but my gut tells me that piracy has been a much larger help to artists. I've seen a few news articles that imply it. Piracy is a threat to labels, but really, when a musician can grab Garage Band and a few thousand bucks of hardware and publish his own music... do we need labels?
- jonny_noog 17y agoWhat I find amusing is this argument I've heard a few times coming from the labels that goes along the lines of that we need their expertise in order to produce and discern the "quality" music... Because they do such a good job of that usually.