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Well, a strip club will have prices based on what the local economy can bear. So a strip club in LA will be more expensive per tit than a strip club in rural Bu
by jiggy2011 14y ago
Well, a strip club will have prices based on what the local economy can bear. So a strip club in LA will be more expensive per tit than a strip club in rural Bulgaria.
Stuff that can be expressed as bytes does not always have the same sort of price discrimination, so in some geographies people will pirate things that they could have no realistic possibility of ever affording.
Plus it's not all entertainment, a lot of the stuff mentioned is educational resources. Not to mention that watching foreign entertainment shows can give you a good education about culture.
- rayiner 14y agoPresumably they make movies, music, etc, in rural Bulgaria, priced commensurately with the local market? To turn the analogy a bit--rural Bulgarians can't afford to import American call girls, why should they be able to afford American movies?
- zxcdw 14y agoBecause American movie as a stream of bits is not a product. It is information. Information should be free regardless of it's contents. There should be no such thing as "copyright infringing pattern of bits" for example. Yet it exists, if I haven't paid for a right to "consume" the "content". How do you enforce this? At what cost? You can not fight technology, you can not stop it. It is inevitable that information will become free. Luckily, it is now easier than ever to enjoy cross-cultural content in digital form. I am not advocating for a society where one doesn't get paid for the content they provide, but rather for a society where information is free. Where information is not scarce. Where anyone can benefit from the works of others. Sharing is caring! Stop competing, start co-operating.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI don't think culture is such an elastic good. Other examples might be commercial software.