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Yeah, I find that looking for a conspiracy here absolutely hilarious. Why can't it just be as simple as copyright holders really, really, really hate piracy, an

Yeah, I find that looking for a conspiracy here absolutely hilarious. Why can't it just be as simple as copyright holders really, really, really hate piracy, and are definitely willing to make a technical mess to do it? They hate piracy because it does cost them. How complicated does it need to be?

danuker 5y ago
> They hate piracy because it does cost them. https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-report-suppression-raises-questions-transparency-170922/ https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-report-suppression-raises... > “In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements,”
- kube-system 5y ago
  Read the next sentence too. > That does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect. Absence of evidence != evidence of absence.
  - lstodd 5y ago
    Absence of evidence == there must be more study before any conclusions. Instead of the usual hypocrisy.
midjji 5y ago
Unwillingness to change, I think, is a important part of the explanation. The old music companies were unable to provide the service their customers now asked for, i.e. convenient online, streaming, etc. In order to do so they would need to fundamentally change every aspect of their industry, from production, to artist contracts, to marketing, to financing, to distribution, and sales. Now if you were an executive on any level on such a corporation, would you want to continue doing the minimum effort thing of keeping everything the same? Or would you recommend completely changing everything, including replacing you with someone with different skills. Itunes did not hire the same distribution of people as the old record companies had, not even close. They could not fight it forever, and the change is still in progress, with more artists than ever using alternate crowdsourcing, etc.

danuker 5y ago

> They hate piracy because it does cost them. https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-report-suppression-raises-questions-transparency-170922/ https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-report-suppression-raises... > “In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements,”

kube-system 5y ago
Read the next sentence too. > That does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect. Absence of evidence != evidence of absence.
- lstodd 5y ago
  Absence of evidence == there must be more study before any conclusions. Instead of the usual hypocrisy.

midjji 5y ago

Unwillingness to change, I think, is a important part of the explanation. The old music companies were unable to provide the service their customers now asked for, i.e. convenient online, streaming, etc. In order to do so they would need to fundamentally change every aspect of their industry, from production, to artist contracts, to marketing, to financing, to distribution, and sales. Now if you were an executive on any level on such a corporation, would you want to continue doing the minimum effort thing of keeping everything the same? Or would you recommend completely changing everything, including replacing you with someone with different skills. Itunes did not hire the same distribution of people as the old record companies had, not even close. They could not fight it forever, and the change is still in progress, with more artists than ever using alternate crowdsourcing, etc.