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Why not target markets and car boot sales for also enabling piracy? Piracy seems to just be a convenient term/scapegoat that enables businesses that can't (or
by FuzzyDunlop 15y ago
Why not target markets and car boot sales for also enabling piracy?
Piracy seems to just be a convenient term/scapegoat that enables businesses that can't (or won't) consider adapting to a changing environment while dealing with the prolific infringers through the proper legal channels.
That's not to dismiss piracy in its entirety. More to say that a very complicated issue is being considered a black and white one on both sides. One that is so new that no one's really got a good idea of how best to tackle it yet.
This is evident rather clearly in approaches taken to battle piracy and defend it, such as DRM measures actually punishing the legit consumer for having the audacity to buy their product; and such as the ridiculous sense of entitlement some consumers have: that they have the god-given right to consume media for free.
Hence arguments arise, for example, about the ratio of downloads to lost sales (neither 1:1 or 1:0 as both sides would have you believe), how piracy is a victimless crime, how the internet is an insurmountable threat to big business' bottom line and other such bullshit.
Piracy as a concept will never truly stopped and pirates will never get all their content legitimately for free (without any sort of compromise). Hence the solution is good, old-fashioned innovation, and the willingness of businesses to constantly adapt to new opportunities and threats in their environment while considering their own strengths and weaknesses. The economy as businesses would like it to remain (free of regulation) is too harsh and remorseless for the old mammoths to survive.
And the legal system as it is is there to allow them to face the real piss-takers in court, and also to allow those individuals or businesses to defend themselves.
Sounds almost too sensible to be true.
- mukyu 15y agoI had never heard of a car boot sale, but I had heard of a car boot (a device that fit around a car's wheel to prevent it from turning). Wikipedia says it is basically a flea market except people selling out of their car's trunks.
- chc 15y ago"Boot" = "trunk", depending on your dialect of English.