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The only answer I can see is a boycott, but people's lives are now essentially based around copyrighted content. Culture is a human need, so you'd be asking pe
by mjgoins 17y ago
The only answer I can see is a boycott, but people's lives are now essentially based around copyrighted content.
Culture is a human need, so you'd be asking people to give up something they biologically can't.
In other words, if you care about this sort of issue, you're 100% screwed (and I do care, quite a bit).
- furriner 17y agoCareful - that might be an offense under the secret treaty ;-)
- shpxnvz 17y agoyou'd be asking people to give up something they biologically can't. This seems a bit melodramatic... surely buying those particular bits of content that are churned out by the big media producers isn't really a biological need. I certainly agree that a boycott won't work, but I say for no other reason than good old human laziness combined with an unwillingness to forgo creature comforts.
- camccann 17y agoThe only effective alternative to a boycott is mass civil disobedience, which is likely to be even more uncomfortable than a boycott for the average person. The copyright lobby has long since surrendered the moral high ground to the "pirates". Personally I've taken the "boycott" route, but to my mind someone pirating copyrighted content is more ethical than someone paying the copyright cartels for it.