| reply to Jason Levine
Re: RIAA/MPAA That's a legitimate point.
It's all about scale.
These companies remain very profitable.
If the scale is modest enough that it doesn't really hurt but is a minor irritation it isn't going to have the desired effect and it won't undermine their lobbying muscle. It's more like poking the tiger with a stick, which only makes it more aggressive.
I think the effect would be different if people's behavior changed on a large enough scale. It has to be a scale that causes major harm to their business today, not a scale that simply causes them to worry about the future.
We have not reached the tipping point where enough people have realized that they don't need to pay entertainment companies to fill up their free time. |
