Mr Khan said:
HappySqurriel said:
snakenobi said:
thats bullshit.they are trying to regulate everything but it won't work in the end
main reason piracy is this: income inequalities
Rich class has most of the money of the country and they make films,songs,etc with it.the poor class that doesn't have money goes and pirates it
at first people will accept it not to pirate fearing the law but after a while the income inequalities will grow too big and the gap between the classes will widen and they will know that regulations are to suppress them and taking a toll on their lives
examples:occupy wall street,uprising's everywhere
what these protest and revolts will do it bring in a new government which will be fair.and if everybody would have money,they wouldn't pirate
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Being that the most active pirates I know have the money to buy a legitimate copy of the content for their desired use, I think claiming piracy exists because of income inequality is 100% BS ...
Whether you're talking about music, movies, books or videogames piracy is the results of businesses holding onto a broken and outdated business model. With the introduction of low cost high speed internet connections the marginal cost of producing an additional "sale" of content is very low and is getting cheaper all the time, and (at this point in time) content like books and songs have a marginal cost of nearly $0.00. What this means is that the content should be priced at the highest level where the vast majority of individuals see no value in "stealing" the content in order to maximize profit.
As an example of what I mean, music companies would probably sell far more than 4 times as much music if the songs were priced at $0.25 (and more than 10 times as much music if they were sold at $0.10) than they're selling at the $1 per song price.
Now, rather than try to adapt to the new market, companies are trying to force people to pay the prices they dictate by eliminating the black market competition who're selling the product at a healthy margin over the marginal cost; in most cases, the marginal cost is (roughly) $0.00 and the healthy margin is the money they generate from advertising.
The way to "solve" piracy is to tell the media companies to adapt or die ... If a pirate can afford to "sell" a copy of an album for (roughly) $0.00 why do they need to sell it for $15.00+
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Exactly. It's a question of meddling in economics, and one whereby the meddling will more definitively cost jobs and generate no public gain, so lacks the utility of many government interventions in the market
The fun part is that some media providers are beginning to acknowledge that super-low costs are the only viable route. Funimation, for instance, now posts new episodes of One Piece immediately after the Japanese episode airs, this being the only way to effectively kill the fan-subbers, and in a way that supplies the fans with professional-level translations at a much faster rate
If it weren't for fansubs and piracy, Funimation would release subtitled episodes in groups of 20-episode, $35 DVDs months after their air date
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You could of just said meddling with the economy.
What i find amusing is how this legislation is mostly "Both sides against the middle."
The level of inovation and jobs this would kill would be outrageous.
It'd basically kill off even "Fair Use" websites, do to the awy it's written now.
Theoretically anyway.... since this is one of those "discressionary" laws... that NEVER work.
It's like the good old "I Know it when I see it threshold."
The problem is... often times you don't. So it breeds inherent inequality which then leads to outright corruption as the inequality and disceresionary reasoning means anything can be explained.
Which largely will mean that big sites will be fine, small sites will be crushed, and the occasional big competitor will be shut down because of campaign contributions here or there.
If this passes no doubt Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and the rest will try and petition each other to try and file copyright lawsuits on each other.
It'll be just like all the android phone bullshit but 100% worse.
Which will lead anyone who can't afford a good lawyer to just avoid it all together.
