Source: National Cyber Security - Produced By Gregory Evans
I wonder sometimes why people care about piracy so much. By now it’s fairly common knowledge only a very small portion of an album’s gross actually goes to musicians, and the Recording Industry Association of America is a greedy and wayward company that values profits above its customers and artists. The Motion Picture Association of America lost all credibility to wage war on piracy when it lobbied for Congress to outlaw VCRs in 1982. Additionally, time and time again we see that dropping prices for CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs doesn’t actually affect overall piracy. An all-out war on illegal downloading is likely to lead to the end of piracy like an all-out war on drugs has led to the extinction of the marijuana plant. So why do we have war being waged on the sharing of copyrighted material? It’s true the rise of piracy has coincided with drops in various industry profits, but digital purchasing of music and movies has been doing that much more adroitly than pure piracy ever could. The rise of services like iTunes and Amazon MP3 means if Justin Bieber releases an album with only one or two good songs, then most people might only [...]
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