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It's because so few care about copyright. It is seen as something dry and stodgy that only affect artists and their publishers/labels. This perhaps because onc
by digi_owl 9y ago
It's because so few care about copyright. It is seen as something dry and stodgy that only affect artists and their publishers/labels.
This perhaps because once the cassette recorder, never mind the VCR, came to be, most nations on the western side of the wall decided to not go full police state and thus added a "friends and family" clause to their copyright laws.
This meant that a person could create a copy, if it was meant for a direct friend or a relative. This avoided having to park a copyright cop in every home in the nation.
Never mind that producing analog copies from tape to tape cause of a noticeable loss of content with each generation removed from the original.
But the computer, never mind the internet, changed all that. It made mass copying not something that required massive machinery in a warehouse, but something every kid could do in their own home. Especially as bandwidth and storage capacity kept improving at a massive rate.
And digital copies do not degrade like an analog one does.
- icebraining 9y agoThe organizations also play a game of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Remember Home Taping Is Killing Music? By their propaganda, the music industry should have died multiple times in the past few decades.
- slantyyz 9y ago>> It's because so few care about copyright. It is seen as something dry and stodgy that only affect artists and their publishers/labels. This is because copyright relates to stuff that's usually intangible. People easily grasp the idea of theft when it comes to tangible, physical stuff. >> And digital copies do not degrade like an analog one does. True, but digital copies are for the most part still stored on media that can degrade, break or malfunction. In the context of places like TPB, digital copies are indeed degraded as they are often uploaded with lossy compression to reduce file size.
- otempomores 9y agoand they would have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling hackers