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"The thing about movies is that they're also part of societal culture - in The West at least." This is an interesting point. Moral correctness aside... The co
by CarbyAu 6y ago
"The thing about movies is that they're also part of societal culture - in The West at least."
This is an interesting point. Moral correctness aside...
The content industries try as hard as possible to make their stuff "socially mandatory" via marketing. If they could make it law to consume their product they would.
So, socially:
For as long as there is such a social pressure, there will be people who try to fulfill that pressure at least expense.
And financially:
In a world where you have increasing financial inequality, the balance of people for whom it is "worth their time" to find a cheaper way becomes greater.
So I don't think piracy is going anywhere, until the motivations are gone. For that, "all digital copies are free" is technically feasible.(Again, moral correctness aside.)
But I don't know what the commercial world would look like to allow that to happen.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoYes, this is why I think a copyright term of ~7 years fits (for mass media). It allows recrual of costs and it allows participation in media that's still culturally relevant. Further, it allows still culturally relevant works to be remixed, worked on, 'improved' by the populous. Currently the long copyright terms are not encouraging innovation; the same works are being resold to the same people over and over.
- CarbyAu 6y agoI agree the current copyrights are stifling innovation, and largely leveraging branding. Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek to name a few. These things haven't died out because they have people invested in their brand and storyline. But they also haven't done anything super cool because they don't want to take the risk they might damage their brand. They try to make"reliable blockbusters".