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The film & recorded music industries were built in an era of information scarcity, maintained by tightly controlled distribution. We now live in an era where in
by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
The film & recorded music industries were built in an era of information scarcity, maintained by tightly controlled distribution. We now live in an era where information is infinite and everywhere.
Criminalising people isn't going to turn back this fundamental sea change.
- IdiocyInAction 6y agoInformation is infinite, but creating it is still not free. Creating the media that people consume via these streaming services costs millions of dollars and manhours. You are right that media companies have to adapt to the changing times, but simply saying that it should all be freely available is not a solution. I can imagine a future where this may be a feasible solution, but we are not there yet. What is also a problem is that prosecuting copyright infringement presents a nasty threat to privacy protections.
- jariel 6y ago"Criminalising people isn't going to turn back this fundamental sea change" - Making private information available as a common activity is not inevitable. - Staling private information is a crime by any account. - The underlying economics are against your logic: it takes many workers, doing real work, to make those things. If they don't get paid, it doesn't get made. - The 'yacht' analogy wrong - the entertainment industry is full of money losing projects, and zillions of people working really hard on stuff because they care and not earning a lot of money. There surely probably more arbitrarily rich people in tech than in entertainment.