I guess you'd have decide on what "harming" means. As a producer you're hope is that people see your movie. Even as an artist you'd expect people want to see your work. Where things will get muddled is just how is piracy hurting the product. These movies that have a high piracy rates also seem to have record breaking box office revenues. So, the real question is if there is a correlation what is it exactly? If the movie is making money hand over fist while still available for free online SOMETHING has to be drawing people to the theater to see it in droves. What do you suppose that is?
I'm pretty sure that robbing a bank and crossing state lines with horses was still illegal and there was no asylum to be claimed even before the Automobile arrived. How is file sharing or copying a digital file the same as robbing a bank? Two completely different things by the way. Maybe I'm missing something.
As history has shown there's always something to take the place of something "evil" that has been brought to its knees and collapsed and is it really important??? Even though the RIAA is equilavent to an Empire though not an Empire that governs a people so I don't see how the whole quote about anarchy fits in. So it may be just me but I fail to see the relevance to what takes the RIAA's place.
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I guess you'd have decide on what "harming" means. As a producer you're hope is that people see your movie. Even as an artist you'd expect people want to see your work. Where things will get muddled is just how is piracy hurting the product. These movies that have a high piracy rates also seem to have record breaking box office revenues. So, the real question is if there is a correlation what is it exactly? If the movie is making money hand over fist while still available for free online SOMETHING has to be drawing people to the theater to see it in droves. What do you suppose that is?
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I'm pretty sure that robbing a bank and crossing state lines with horses was still illegal and there was no asylum to be claimed even before the Automobile arrived. How is file sharing or copying a digital file the same as robbing a bank? Two completely different things by the way. Maybe I'm missing something.
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Does anyone know what this guy is talking about?
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As history has shown there's always something to take the place of something "evil" that has been brought to its knees and collapsed and is it really important??? Even though the RIAA is equilavent to an Empire though not an Empire that governs a people so I don't see how the whole quote about anarchy fits in. So it may be just me but I fail to see the relevance to what takes the RIAA's place.