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I read this article about how the internet is allowing people to get free music and movies illegally and such piracy is killing the respective industries.bolluks! We've all downloaded loads of pirated free porn and the porn industry is booming!
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You're entirely correct.
The industry thrived previously because it was very hard to make films (etc.), but easy to watch them. Distribution was also difficult.
The technology to make and distribute films is now cheaply available, such that the average Joe can do it.
The industries are old hats that simply can't move fast enough, and they've got used to getting paid vast amounts for doing very little work.
The industries are now trying to stop creativity, in an attempt to keep their piles of cash. Stopping things like derivative works are the undoing of society itself.
Now, while I believe the law itself is horribly out of date (as is public perception), I still believe artists deserve to be paid. However, in this age of mass, easy distribution, I see no reason why there has to be many big wigs doing little more than lining their pockets.
The industry should be free to mould itself to something more reasonable, and I'm sure it will (but probably the hard way).
The industry thrived previously because it was very hard to make films (etc.), but easy to watch them. Distribution was also difficult.
The technology to make and distribute films is now cheaply available, such that the average Joe can do it.
The industries are old hats that simply can't move fast enough, and they've got used to getting paid vast amounts for doing very little work.
The industries are now trying to stop creativity, in an attempt to keep their piles of cash. Stopping things like derivative works are the undoing of society itself.
Now, while I believe the law itself is horribly out of date (as is public perception), I still believe artists deserve to be paid. However, in this age of mass, easy distribution, I see no reason why there has to be many big wigs doing little more than lining their pockets.
The industry should be free to mould itself to something more reasonable, and I'm sure it will (but probably the hard way).
As a musician, I pretty much agree with everything fo3nix says. Back in the day when it cost squillions to equip a recording studio, the record companies provided a useful service (and were run by people who were, to a greater or lesser degree, musos). Production and distribution costs today are infinitesimally small in comparison, and record companies are mainly run by accountants who think it's quite reasonable to pay the people who actually make the music a tiny fraction of the profits and pocket the rest.
Record companies are basically dinosaurs that don't yet realise that extinction is just a round the corner.
None of this is to condone stealing music, just to point out that record companies today are ripping off both the customers and the musicians.
Record companies are basically dinosaurs that don't yet realise that extinction is just a round the corner.
None of this is to condone stealing music, just to point out that record companies today are ripping off both the customers and the musicians.
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