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Even if the recording industry manages to shut down Pirate Bay in Sweden they will just move their servers elsewhere. They have already demonstrated that they a
by mixmax 19y ago
Even if the recording industry manages to shut down Pirate Bay in Sweden they will just move their servers elsewhere. They have already demonstrated that they are capable of doing this - last time they were raided by the police their servers were up and running in other countries within 24 hours.
And even if they manage to shut down the Pirate Bay completely something else will fill the gap within a month. Napster, Kazaa, e-mule, the list goes on...
Don't these people have anybody looking into new businees models? Their current one seems to revolve around suing their customers, and in the long term I somehow don't think that is a great strategy...
I don't necessarily agree that it is OK to steal copyrighted work, but seen from a business perspective they are digging their own grave. The world evolves, and industries that don't evolve with it will wither and eventually die.
- as 19y agoThat's been said before, but the current industry got fat off the way things were. You can bet they'll kick and scream before cutting off a pound of their own flesh - no matter how clear the need.
- mixmax 19y agoYeah it has, the comment was not so much to try and say something new as it was amazement at how a whole industry can so stubborn be walking right into its grave. It is just totally beyond comprehension.
- ojbyrne 19y agoI'm reminded of the Niels Bohr quote (which I can't find now) about how Quantum Physics overcame Newtonian Physics in academia - something to the effect of "we waited till all those who believed in Newtonian Physics died." Big companies are like that - nearly impervious to change. They won't change -- they'll die. They're dying now.
- rms 19y agoTPB servers are already elsewhere. The founders claim to not know where they are, so they can never give up their locations. They supposedly have servers all a round the world now.