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Destructive Nature of Over-litigated Intellectual Property Law
- unimpressive 15y agoThe economics of "Spite piracy" don't make sense. If you don't make a purchase the company gets no value. However, if you pirate content the big media conglomerates get the utility value of saying that there wares are a valuable contribution to society and that their innocent trade ships are being plundered by the evil Silicon Valley conspiracy. (Of which Google is the obvious head.) Please people, if you really want to spite these companies, just ignore them. (Or at least attack them in ways that don't strengthen their arguments...) Releasing blockbuster films to no reception at all is the sort of thing that kills an industry. Dissidents making themselves the poster child of laws like SOPA and PIPA for no good reason isn't.