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It's interesting to watch it go up and down when you say something controversial. I agree with you. It's childish and reflects poorly on the BitTorrent communit

by pj 17y ago

It's interesting to watch it go up and down when you say something controversial. I agree with you. It's childish and reflects poorly on the BitTorrent community which is already treading water. Anyone who has produced anything of value wants to protect that thing of value. If the value of products can't be protected, then people will stop taking the big risks they need to take to produce the products. People who steal movies and music and other digital content need to give up the delusion. BitTorrent is a great system, unfortunately, leeches on society have destroyed its reputation and value to the world by using it to steal people's hard work. Just stop doing it. Do you really need 1,000 movies? Do you really need 10,000 songs? Just stop stealing stuff. There's plenty of great free content on the web.

noonespecial 17y ago
Just stop doing it. Do you really need 1,000 movies? Do you really need 10,000 songs? Just stop stealing stuff. There's plenty of great free content on the web. I hear this all the time. I couldn't agree more. But if I don't need 1000 movies and 10,000 songs, and I do enjoy the great free stuff on the web, isn't the result exactly the same for the producers of said "things of value"? Would it not be better for them if I did believe that I needed their movies, "stole" 990 of them and bought 10, than if I decided (as I do more each year) that I just don't need that stuff in my life?
- lucumo 17y ago
  It is. But if they're competing with the free stuff, the solution is to make stuff that's worth more than the free stuff. So much more that people are willing to pay the price. They may go out of business if they fail, but if they succeeed, we're all better of because of it. If, on the other hand, they're competing with their own pirated stuff, making it better will only make the problem worse. The way to solve that is to make piracy harder, more dangerous, or useless. If they succeed we may be better off (if they change their business model and the new model gives us better quality), but it seems unlikely. It's more likely that everybody will be worse off whether or not they fail or succeed.

by pj 17y ago

noonespecial 17y ago

Just stop doing it. Do you really need 1,000 movies? Do you really need 10,000 songs? Just stop stealing stuff. There's plenty of great free content on the web. I hear this all the time. I couldn't agree more. But if I don't need 1000 movies and 10,000 songs, and I do enjoy the great free stuff on the web, isn't the result exactly the same for the producers of said "things of value"? Would it not be better for them if I did believe that I needed their movies, "stole" 990 of them and bought 10, than if I decided (as I do more each year) that I just don't need that stuff in my life?

lucumo 17y ago
It is. But if they're competing with the free stuff, the solution is to make stuff that's worth more than the free stuff. So much more that people are willing to pay the price. They may go out of business if they fail, but if they succeeed, we're all better of because of it. If, on the other hand, they're competing with their own pirated stuff, making it better will only make the problem worse. The way to solve that is to make piracy harder, more dangerous, or useless. If they succeed we may be better off (if they change their business model and the new model gives us better quality), but it seems unlikely. It's more likely that everybody will be worse off whether or not they fail or succeed.