The analogy falls when you compare physically created goods from digitally created goods. The cloth buttonmakers were not downloading and selling the guild's b

The analogy falls when you compare physically created goods from digitally created goods. The cloth buttonmakers were not downloading and selling the guild's buttons, they were making their own buttons and selling them as an alternative product. Like the buttonmakers breaking the protectionist cycle, we can destroy mpaa and riaa if we can crowdsource and opensource movie and song creation and provide better payoffs to James Cameron and Brittany Spears for creating addicting quality content, then like the buttonmaker guilds, riaa amd mpaa can be made irrelevant.