| > How do you think IP owners can adapt when piracy is made so transparent that it doesn't even feel like piracy anymore? Maybe it is time to admit that copyright is obsolete? If crime is rampant, then there are only two possibilities: either society has collapsed and the rule of law no longer applies, or the law itself is broken, and is unjustly penalizing people for doing something that is perfectly normal and acceptable or desirable. I'm looking out the window and there aren't cars on fire. I'm leaning towards the latter. So called "intellectual property" needs a deep reform. It probably made sense a century ago, but it doesn't make sense today, where copying and transmitting data and ideas is so simple that it happens by accident. As for IP owners and their "profits", I say fuck em. Selling "copies" is an obsolete business model. The software world has already figured this out ages ago: services are where the real money is. Netflix and Amazon are making a huge chunk of money with their streaming offerings. Microsoft's Azure and Amazon AWS are making their respective companies a huge chunk of cash. Hell, Microsoft is even giving Windows 10 (Home, but still) away for free now. The media companies need to adapt, but greedy fucks that they are, they refused to do that. In the age of digital, they still want to sell you DVDs, CDs and physical books. Worse: the digital copies in some instances cost almost as much as the - scarce - physical copies. WTF? So, again, fuck em. They needed to adapt, but they have been resisting change and throwing roadbloacks at every intersection, and generally, being a nuisance. If they go down in flames, serves them right. |
One of the reasons I've not bought a DVD in years and mainly stream shows now.