An industry that can afford to buy and sell congressmen is not an industry that is "failing". The fact is, they have been to successful. It's past time to regulate the entertainment industries. It's past time that the artists got a bigger cut, some of the middlemen are cut out, and at the same time prices are slashed.
Black March should become a lifetime thing. Boycott the labels, and support the artists directly. Buy independent music, buy from labels that oppose ACTA and TPP.
I clicked "funny" above your post. I'm not even a grammar nazi, but you use all those big 50-cent words - then fail to use proper syntax! Credibility? Sorry, you don't have much to work with.
In Europe, yes. The courts won't even consider protecting an "ineffective" DRM. That DVD protection thing has been broken for so long, anyone who attempted to prosecute anyone in Europe for bypassing it would be laughed out of court.
Jim Baen has left this world - but not before he established pretty conclusively that the more he gave away, the more money he made. Don't take my word for it - just google the baen free book library. Look for Jim's and other people's discourses on the subject of piracy. Baen books doesn't make EVERYTHING free - each author has to "opt in", and the author gets to choose which books are going to be used. But, they prove that the commonly accepted copyright assumptions are WRONG!
That said - in the absence of objective, scientific studies, then you must accept the next best thing. An empirical study by Baen books is the next best thing. Lacking an empirical study, then individual subjective studies would have to do. There is no need to take the word of lying corporate SOB's whose motives are obvious.
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An industry that can afford to buy and sell congressmen is not an industry that is "failing". The fact is, they have been to successful. It's past time to regulate the entertainment industries. It's past time that the artists got a bigger cut, some of the middlemen are cut out, and at the same time prices are slashed.
Black March should become a lifetime thing. Boycott the labels, and support the artists directly. Buy independent music, buy from labels that oppose ACTA and TPP.
Screw the rich bastids!
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I clicked "funny" above your post. I'm not even a grammar nazi, but you use all those big 50-cent words - then fail to use proper syntax! Credibility? Sorry, you don't have much to work with.
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In Europe, yes. The courts won't even consider protecting an "ineffective" DRM. That DVD protection thing has been broken for so long, anyone who attempted to prosecute anyone in Europe for bypassing it would be laughed out of court.
Re: Why can't people understand the difference?
NO, YOU!!
Re: reliable piracy research
Jim Baen has left this world - but not before he established pretty conclusively that the more he gave away, the more money he made. Don't take my word for it - just google the baen free book library. Look for Jim's and other people's discourses on the subject of piracy. Baen books doesn't make EVERYTHING free - each author has to "opt in", and the author gets to choose which books are going to be used. But, they prove that the commonly accepted copyright assumptions are WRONG!
That said - in the absence of objective, scientific studies, then you must accept the next best thing. An empirical study by Baen books is the next best thing. Lacking an empirical study, then individual subjective studies would have to do. There is no need to take the word of lying corporate SOB's whose motives are obvious.