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> Piracy isn’t an answer to the problem If the problem is, "me wanting to watch The Flamingo Kid tonight" piracy absolutely does solve that problem. Also, the
by thcipriani 7y ago
> Piracy isn’t an answer to the problem
If the problem is, "me wanting to watch The Flamingo Kid tonight" piracy absolutely does solve that problem.
Also, the reason for this problem is that there is not sufficient commercial incentive to make a legal solution to this problem. There are fixes for this, changes could be made to copyright law, for example, that would make this problem a commercially viable one to resolve; however, there are few incentives to make changes that would allow this problem to be resolved. Piracy is certainly the easiest answer to this problem, and the only answer at the moment.
- mrandish 7y ago> Piracy is certainly the easiest answer to this problem, and the only answer at the moment. The situation with these old films that have gone out of availability due to rights holders going out of business or no longer caring is a bit similar to the arcade machine ROM situation. The MAME community has done a great job of documenting the existence of and preserving the history of the ROMs they can find and highlighting the ROMs still missing while avoiding the legal quagmire by never distributing the ROM media itself. (what other people do on BitTorrent stays on BitTorrent). Maybe similar techniques can work for these films.
- sdenton4 7y agoIndexing is fine so long as you can still say a copy exists. But eventually it's like finding a medieval card-catalogue, and wondering what became of all of these other books by Euclid.
- matheusmoreira 7y agoAll they need is one good copy.
- kickscondor 7y agoInstead of calling it 'piracy', call it 'archival work'. Done!
- ak39 7y agoDistributed offsite redundant backup. (1, 2, 3 of backups)