[papaver-somnamb]

> What is the problem?

> There are two main problems with digital piracy. First, it robs the creator of their income. It’s not just big companies who suffer – the people working behind the scenes lose out too.

How risible! Over the decades we have come to learn that those who pirate are those who are willing to expend their time and use their technical competence to consume media that they otherwise wouldn't pay for or cannot afford to begin with. Like younger folk. And the economically disadvantaged (George Carlin vocetto). A small % of the media corps' "attention base."

It's just a rhetorical talking point in the service of effecting leverage for the incumbents, but does the average Joe know that? And what would change if they did?

Now I'm falling into cynicism, albeit well founded ... Oh, let's go devil's advocate:

And what of the societal consequences of the copyrighting of what is effectively a very large number (encoded media file IP). As though ideas can be owned.