I worked in "anti-piracy" (read: a DMCA chop shop) for a long time. This is one more bit of idiocy that will continue to push people to seek alternative outlet

I worked in "anti-piracy" (read: a DMCA chop shop) for a long time. This is one more bit of idiocy that will continue to push people to seek alternative outlets than the big content guys. In the last twenty years we've seen the nominal rise of self pub outfits like Lulu (and now Amazon), musicians like Marillion, NIN and King Crimson taking broad control of their releases, and scads of different business models/approaches that effectively shut out BC and their sycophants (the most recent that I thought was pretty sharp was the moves by Louis CK). I think its a matter of time; BC will get more draconian for their current assets, which in turn will feed a culture that will want to create more of their own without a sword of IP damocles overtheir heads.