Piracy and stealing creative work is bad. But please, the Publishing houses, Recording and Motion Picture Industries are hardly saints, and often take advantage

Piracy and stealing creative work is bad. But please, the Publishing houses, Recording and Motion Picture Industries are hardly saints, and often take advantage of the authors, musicians and film makers. An author gets his book published at the convenience of the publisher to fit retail schedules (and waits for royalties on that schedule), successful books, especially technical books and how-tos are re-written by contract authors. Musicians get terrible royalties, often once they’ve paid back the Studio's loan for studio time and costs. Movie extras, writers and staff often complain about treatment, and movies are released to a schedule consumers find inconvenient to fit old models, I’m thinking of HBO, cinema release dates and the DVD region codes. Much piracy stopped when people were able to buy the music on MP3 format, after years of failed DRM. Prince, George Michael, the drummer from Culture Club, unknown members of The Smiths, and I don’t know who else, but even established international artists struggle to deal with the faults of their own Industry. Actors complain they are not receiving DVD sell-thru royalties, or on-line streaming because their contract specified something different. The whole lot is a mess of creative work being stolen, but not only by pirates.