said by gaforces:I expect the MPAA and RIAA to fold and new kinder, gentler organizations to rise from the ashes
They have to avoid repercussions somehow, what better way.
Look at the book sellers, they had a harder time with pirates from the beginning, their files are smaller and easier to pirate.
So they embraced the web and started subscriptions services, offered free web library sections, didn't get greedy and charged less for web sales to reflect the cost savings of not having to bind books.
They sold a TON on amazon, they did volume sales, and made money.
Instead of DRM, most of them tried to make their material compatible on many different formats, and they include these different formats in every distribution, and without restrictions!~
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www.baen.com/Eric Flint was right on target with his stance on piracy;
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www.baen.com/library/home.htm Once other thing that Baen has done. Many of their Series Hardbacks come with a free CD with all the prior books on it in all the formats that are in the Baen Online Library. In addition, the CD has printed on it PERMISSION to dupe AND DISTRIBUTE the CD. When I go on a trip, my Baen issued books go along in the form of those CDs (recycled electrons edition) not the "Dead Trees" edition.
