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To me, the strongest case for "Just enough piracy" has less to do with competition, and more to do with preserving dead media. There is so much media out there
by moolcool 7y ago
To me, the strongest case for "Just enough piracy" has less to do with competition, and more to do with preserving dead media. There is so much media out there which is out of print and not available to stream, and would be completely inaccessible if not for piracy.
- shakna 7y agoThere are so many works that are a crazy tangle of copyright that make it quite impossible to legally get a hold of them. Shows where individual characters have their copyright held by various estates (where the original copyright holder has been dead for fifty years), the music rights have reverted back to various production companies, and the distribution rights have been sold and split and re-sold so many times the only way to discover who owns them is to let yourself get sued.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoI would love a system semi-similar to trademarks. If a copyrighted work is unavailable outside the second-hand market for three consecutive years, noncommercial redistribution becomes legal. Sane trademark expiration could end up making this partially moot, however.
- musicale 7y agoAs you note, trademarks are potentially permanent. So even when they copyright of a work expires, the characters, may still be locked up under trademark protection.
- paggle 7y agoSeriously. A friend’s father told me that his favorite movie was “Chase a Crooked Shadow.” I tried to watch it online and couldn’t find any place to buy it (I would have paid up to $50... the guy was visiting and wanted to watch it with me, and probably doesn’t have much more time to live). I could have gotten a DVD, but he would have left my house by then, plus I don’t have any disc readers in my house. The solution was a Russian guy who had posted a terrible screenrip on YouTube. Just take my fucking money!