"Piracy is not a people problem. It’s a service problem. A problem created by an industry that portrays innovation as a threat to their antique recipe to collec

"Piracy is not a people problem. It’s a service problem. A problem created by an industry that portrays innovation as a threat to their antique recipe to collect value. It seems to everyone that they just don’t care." I remember hearing when piracy became mainstream (and even a decade later) that: 1) It was only going to help the artists. 2) People that pirate buy, so there would be no loss in revenue. It really only ended up hurting the indy artist that wanted to eek out a living selling music online, because now that we have generations of kids growing up with free music, they feel they are entitled to it and will not pay for it. Larger artists were hurt too, but they will still make a pretty good living. It also means that if you are a smaller artist and want to get signed, it's that much harder (again, only hurting the smaller artist). It's also ironic because the mere fact that so many people are pirating will mean companies will put less money into those works in the future (because they aren't recouping investment costs) meaning less of a chance you will get what you want by pirating (no DRM, released in all areas, etc). I predicted that it would gut and decimate the industry 15 years ago when Napster came out, and I was right.