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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! Encouraging bootleggers helped the Dead. Why not others?
by mathattack 15y ago
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! Encouraging bootleggers helped the Dead. Why not others?
- city41 15y agoBut that wasn't bootlegging, that was people legitimately recording the shows with the Dead's blessing (many bands followed suit). But it still remains it was the Dead's choice to give that blessing, and I still feel creators should maintain that right. Even if they choose to exercise that right poorly (ie, if the Dead disallowed recording) that is their choice, not the piraters.
- mathattack 15y agoSame as in the article. The firm themselves chose to give away a pirated version. I am certainly not trying to claim that all piracy is good - only that some who embrace it on themselves do benefit.
- leon_ 15y agoYeah, if you can't beat them, join them ... and give your stuff away for free. And get thrown of your apartment. And starve.
- dbattaglia 15y agoThe only thing is, a pirated video game is a bitwise/identical clone of the product they are selling, whereas watching a concert on video is not even remotely close to being there in person.