 JehuPremium
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kudos:2 | Hmm Kinda While on the one hand, this gentleman is correct in that their legal mechanism needs to be easy and priced competitively, that is only half of the battle.
The pirating mechanisms MUST NOT BE easy and full featured and reliable.
So while offering the nice and easy legal alternative, you still must squash the "easy" pirate channels.
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Xure
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Beverly Hills, CA | said by Jehu:The pirating mechanisms MUST NOT BE easy and full featured and reliable. So while offering the nice and easy legal alternative, you still must squash the "easy" pirate channels. Pray tell, how would this be done? In the Internet age when computing power gets exponentially greater and cheaper, when communications are getting better and easier, how do you suppose this would be ever achieved?
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JehuPremium
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1 edit | It is currently being achieved.. that is what the RIAA and MPAA are doing that everyone hates... killing Napster and anything else that becomes popular.
EDIT: Killing piracy is not a realistic goal and the anti-piracy organizations know this.
The realistic, achievable goal is to keep piracy at sketchy mechanism within "acceptable" bounds, like IRC channels.
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Xure
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Beverly Hills, CA | I can't really agree.
IMHO, "easy" or "sketchy" online is really not that different. It's just that a lot of people do not know about Usenet or IIRC or Torrent.
All Napster did was publicity. And they got all the publicity by word of mouth and later on by the *AAs.
Just look what the Napster lawsuit brought - dozens of new networks and P2P apps.
What happened when they had the Pirate Bay raid? They came back with even more hits on their search engine.
Their system is broken. There is no realistic way to fix it with the conditions they want or 99 cent songs, DRM, low bitrate and the rest. Just no way. They can thank Apple and Apple's marketing department for a temporary respite from not having any competition to pirating. |
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"that is what the RIAA and MPAA are doing that everyone hates... killing Napster and anything else that becomes popular."
Ummmm...Is that why WinMX is back up and just as good as ever? Weren't they "killed" by the RIAA? I notice that most of the WinMX connections are through Japan...Hmmmm. THAT will make it a bit harder for the RIAA, wont it?
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