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having some of the largest rights-holders in the world identify your organization's destruction as a significant revenue opportunity puts you in a rather haphaz
by nrser 13y ago
having some of the largest rights-holders in the world identify your organization's destruction as a significant revenue opportunity puts you in a rather haphazard spot. if you don't have a war chest, you're not going to have a very fun war. we've all seen how these corporations have acted. they have been stockpiling legal weaponry and applying it belligerently for a decade. something about a lot of hammers and you look like a nail.
- hga 13y agoWell, this works both ways. If you don't have a war chest, the rights holders aren't going to get much money from you (blood from a stone and all that). The theory that this results in a side effect of Amazon destroying massive quantities of used merchandise, since that's the cheapest option for the target, is just about as plausible. A number of rights holders have been whining about used media, now that it's a LOT more durable than in the bad old, pre-polycarbonate, pre-digital era.