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One can say that record labels brought the piracy problem on themselves by looking to create barriers to content while pirates worked to create access to conten
by insickness 15y ago
One can say that record labels brought the piracy problem on themselves by looking to create barriers to content while pirates worked to create access to content.
However, it's erroneous for an individual to argue that he has a right to pirate because the industry created barriers to their own content. It's counterproductive to the anti-censorship movement.
Instead, we should focus on the fact that the music industry has been anti-effective and is now using censorship to compensate for their reluctance to change.
- tux1968 15y agoYou're right, and it's just as erroneous for an individual to argue that he has a right to payment every time someone shares a new copy of his creation. Competing interests will often be in conflict, and that's what we're seeing in this debate. You can safely translate "a right to piracy" to "no moral obligation to respect copyright". Once the moral argument is dismissed, all that remains is pragmatic conflict resolution. One side could be destroyed, a compromise could be found, or a protracted conflict could ensue. In any case, moral arguments from either side are mostly useless.