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by parka 5258 days ago
It may not be necessary to compete as directly as that.

Filesharing sites compete against Hollywood in a different way (even though it's illegal) and they manage to grab their attention. What we need is something to give us the same amount of leverage.

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You missed the point. File sharing sites don't create content, they exploit Hollywood's archaic and stubborn method of distributing content.
What you're saying is common knowledge.

What I'm trying to say is: Don't compete directly.

Apple didn't compete directly with the music/tv/movie industries but yet they too manage to have a huge leverage over them. And they managed that legally.

There will be a certain metric that matters in competition. We just need to know what that metric is.