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Sadly, if piracy ever did go away, then all those great achievements would disappear with it. The only reason they exist is because piracy is providing competit
by alextgordon 16y ago
Sadly, if piracy ever did go away, then all those great achievements would disappear with it. The only reason they exist is because piracy is providing competition to a market that has none.
- tjr 16y agoI doubt that's the only reason. The picketing nerds in hazmat suits were probably folks from the FSF, and they are opposed to DRM on principle, and I believe that would have been shouting the same principles whether if pirated music was available and DRM-free or not.
- pyre 16y agoPersonally, I think that piracy had more to do with the downfall of DRM than protesters in haz-mat suits. Do you really think that the RIAA would have cared about them? Do you really think that those protesters would have stopped teens and 20-somethings from buying music? Piracy becoming popular among that demographic did more to achieve this end than those protesters did.
- tjr 16y agoI can only speculate. FSF propaganda influenced me as a teenager. I too would reckon that piracy played a larger role; whatever smaller role things like protesters played may have been useful in articulating the problems that prompted piracy to occur.