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I think a pirate site that only distributed >5 year old content would get much more support. After 5 years the vast majority of works have already made most of

I think a pirate site that only distributed >5 year old content would get much more support. After 5 years the vast majority of works have already made most of their profits. Yet older and more obscure works are much harder to get without violating copyright. See the graphic on this page for example: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-missing-20th-century-how-copyright-protection-makes-books-vanish/255282/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-mi... I think copyright should only last 10 to 15 years, but that's a battle that is never going to be won. If anything it will likely be extended indefinitely to protect Disney™ Corporation.

timonovici 12y ago
That's not always the case, Seinfeld still bring a lot of cash for Sony, and they will never agree to stop at any point, if that still brings in money. Even a thousand years would not be enough, because that's the "raison d'être" for corporations: making money. http://www.buzzfeed.com/peterlauria/sony-pictures-business-secrets-revealed-in-hack-yep-seinfeld http://www.buzzfeed.com/peterlauria/sony-pictures-business-s... But I do agree with the general idea - torrents site should stay in the legal area (but actually is not site owners who are responsible, it's the users. The site just provides a means to an end, just like a showel could be used in your garden or to smash somebody's head. It would be stupid to sue the hardware store that provided the showel). Copyright ought to be shorter - several years would be enough, and I guess another rule would help: corporations should be banned from owning the so called "intelectual rights", or copyrights of any kind - those corporations tend to grow into monsters, and however much they would make, only very few of the creative talent behind the work would benefit.
- Houshalter 12y ago
  I said that they make the majority of their money within a few years. Also the question is whether they would have produced Seinfeld anyway, if copyright only lasted 10 years. I think they would have.

timonovici 12y ago

That's not always the case, Seinfeld still bring a lot of cash for Sony, and they will never agree to stop at any point, if that still brings in money. Even a thousand years would not be enough, because that's the "raison d'être" for corporations: making money. http://www.buzzfeed.com/peterlauria/sony-pictures-business-secrets-revealed-in-hack-yep-seinfeld http://www.buzzfeed.com/peterlauria/sony-pictures-business-s... But I do agree with the general idea - torrents site should stay in the legal area (but actually is not site owners who are responsible, it's the users. The site just provides a means to an end, just like a showel could be used in your garden or to smash somebody's head. It would be stupid to sue the hardware store that provided the showel). Copyright ought to be shorter - several years would be enough, and I guess another rule would help: corporations should be banned from owning the so called "intelectual rights", or copyrights of any kind - those corporations tend to grow into monsters, and however much they would make, only very few of the creative talent behind the work would benefit.

Houshalter 12y ago
I said that they make the majority of their money within a few years. Also the question is whether they would have produced Seinfeld anyway, if copyright only lasted 10 years. I think they would have.