Xure
join:2003-11-14
Beverly Hills, CA | Wake up, the future is knocking... Copyright this and that, they are all worth only what the audience and consumer can get away with. Nothing more nothing less. These idealized worlds of protecting this and that are just mirages.
I am not passing judgement here, just stating the facts. In the end, the information can not be contained because technology makes it impossible. Rant all you want, you will not change this. Laws, enforcement and scare tactics will pinch a few poor individual but it will never change the big picture. Information will become more and more easy to come by, store, spread, copy, grow. And int he end, all MP3s and movies are some digital signals over some medium. And it will become more and more progressively easier to transfer, store and copy them without anybody being able to do anything.
We have seen the fight go on for years now without even making a dent in the amount of data available for download despite all the anti-piracy efforts. You can quote laws, make them tougher, incarcerate people longer but in the end, a few poor SOBs will "pay" and many will continue. And they will become larger and larger. The industry is already waking up to the situation with downloadable stuff, on demand movies and Netflix type stores but not enough. The gravity of "free" will not be stopped by a few breadcrumbs. It will have to be more than they are doing now.
Oh well, the arguments will continue about the law and punishment, about the morality of it and in the real world, copyrighted material will become more and more available. This has been true for the last 10-15 years... why should it stop being true today? |
