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I don't think piracy is such a bad thing. Imaging there's a gigantic library that has every music title, movie, TV show, book and software made by man in their
by zyb09 16y ago
I don't think piracy is such a bad thing. Imaging there's a gigantic library that has every music title, movie, TV show, book and software made by man in their shelfs and everybody has free access. Sounds like a desirable thing.
Now the problem of course arises when content creators don't get paid anymore and therefore content creation becomes unprofitable or the quality of the products diminishes. But neither of these things seem to be happening. Not even in the slightest. Entertainment is booming, movies and games reach new heights of invest and profit each year and despite having now a generation of children that probably never bought a music album in there life, Apple will tell you the music industry is far from dead.
So it actually seems you can have both - a highly profitable digital content industry, while having said content available for free to everybody.
- pyre 16y agoThat's kind of missing the point. The content isn't 'free to everybody' because there is always the spectre of getting caught and sued hanging over people's heads. If the authors/content owners themselves said, "Here's this place where you can get all my content for free, legally, but still buy my albums from the store if you want to support me," then we could have a debate about the results of that.