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If piracy didn't actually cost the entertainment industry anything, wouldn't you think they would stop wasting any money trying to prevent it? I would assume t

If piracy didn't actually cost the entertainment industry anything, wouldn't you think they would stop wasting any money trying to prevent it? I would assume they'd try to be fairly objective with this study, because they'd be very happy to discover that piracy is a good thing for them.

chaostheory 14y ago
Well the RIAA still firmly believes that litigation is what slowed down music piracy. However in reality it was probably the advent of easy to use and cheap (or even free) music streaming services that really hurt music piracy.
bluedanieru 14y ago
Large corporations are rarely driven by profit, but rather petty political bullshit and personal crusades.
vacri 14y ago
On favourite tactic of the movie houses is to report on decline in US domestic sales (and they are, or at least were last year), but report on piracy globally. They don't report on global sales, because they're raking it in.
- anigbrowl 14y ago
  Half-true. Foreign distributors get a large cut of that on a hit, but lots of films don't play to a foreign audience while still suffering from the decline in domestic sales. Said decline hits theaters and the people who work there, who are not subsidized by a film's overseas profits.
  - vacri 14y ago
    Global piracy also does not contribute to the local cinemas demise - it's an intentional apples vs oranges comparison.
AnthonyMouse 14y ago
>I would assume they'd try to be fairly objective with this study, because they'd be very happy to discover that piracy is a good thing for them. You assume their goal is to stop piracy rather than to promote "anti-piracy" legislation which just so happens to harm their competitors in markets related to content production (like content distribution and consumer devices) or otherwise attempts to make things more like the bad old days when reaching a large audience required the backing of a major studio. I mean why do you think they keep defending the DMCA prohibition on circumventing DRM? It's obviously nothing to do with piracy because the pirates all just comprehensively ignore it. But what it does is give them a veto over consumer technology. If you have to interact with their DRM then they get to veto your device if they don't like it. Which they don't hesitate to do.[1] [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/judge-rules-against-realdvd https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/judge-rules-against-re...
Evenjos 14y ago
You assume the entertainment industry is smart.

chaostheory 14y ago

Well the RIAA still firmly believes that litigation is what slowed down music piracy. However in reality it was probably the advent of easy to use and cheap (or even free) music streaming services that really hurt music piracy.

bluedanieru 14y ago

Large corporations are rarely driven by profit, but rather petty political bullshit and personal crusades.

vacri 14y ago

On favourite tactic of the movie houses is to report on decline in US domestic sales (and they are, or at least were last year), but report on piracy globally. They don't report on global sales, because they're raking it in.

anigbrowl 14y ago
Half-true. Foreign distributors get a large cut of that on a hit, but lots of films don't play to a foreign audience while still suffering from the decline in domestic sales. Said decline hits theaters and the people who work there, who are not subsidized by a film's overseas profits.
- vacri 14y ago
  Global piracy also does not contribute to the local cinemas demise - it's an intentional apples vs oranges comparison.

AnthonyMouse 14y ago

>I would assume they'd try to be fairly objective with this study, because they'd be very happy to discover that piracy is a good thing for them. You assume their goal is to stop piracy rather than to promote "anti-piracy" legislation which just so happens to harm their competitors in markets related to content production (like content distribution and consumer devices) or otherwise attempts to make things more like the bad old days when reaching a large audience required the backing of a major studio. I mean why do you think they keep defending the DMCA prohibition on circumventing DRM? It's obviously nothing to do with piracy because the pirates all just comprehensively ignore it. But what it does is give them a veto over consumer technology. If you have to interact with their DRM then they get to veto your device if they don't like it. Which they don't hesitate to do.[1] [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/judge-rules-against-realdvd https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/judge-rules-against-re...

Evenjos 14y ago

You assume the entertainment industry is smart.