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Intrinsic on 14 December 2014
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Game_God said:


What I find troubling are the tactics at use, the arm-twisting of laws, the bullying & manipulations in the shadows, law are what we, the people want them to be, they are not to be decided by the heads of a couple of big corporations. The money they are willing to spend to use & trick us is quite revealing!

Furthernore, there is more at stake than fighting piracy, like traffic shapping, with these kind of actions, say you are a internet related start-up company competing with any of the companies belonging to these Corporate nebulaes, they can't traffic shape you out of business with a simple click!

Not even starting on the topic of privacy or industrial spying. Theres is way more in this than meets the eye, if we are not aware of these matters & on alert, we let the door open fascism, oligarquy, corruption, mass propaganda etc. we might as well resurect the likes of Adolf & Joseph, this is corporate business trying to rip us of our freedom & free will, well that's my opinion at least, that is why we should spread the world!

I'm really liking the thoughs being shared here, debate is always healthy :)

I get all that, and when looked at from the absolute worst case scenario its easy to arrive at the same conclusions you have arrived at. Lets look at it differently though and you tell me what you think is the best way around this problem.

On one hand we have the content providers:

  • spend 10s-100s of millions of $$ making content and sometimes just as much marketing it.
  • They are in this to make a profit on their investment which can only happen from sales of said content.
  • hundreds of thousands of people make a living from profits made from said content, people go to schools to learn the trade and a lot of talent is basically put on sale with the hope that money can be made.
On the other hand, we have the consumers:
  • will go to a cinema and watch certain "high profile movies"
  • will opt to watch everything else as cheaply as possible, which thanks to torrents and torrent based apps means for absolutely free.
  • torrent sites and torrent based apps make money from user traffic. Howevr they are peddling products that they had zero hand in making for free.
  • consumers want this content, or not they wouldn't go to the trouble of pirating, Yet they are not willing (rightfully so) to pay the asking price for some ofthe content.
So what will you have both parties do? should consumers be allowed to get everything for free, and if they do doesn't that mean theer is no money to be made from making the content to begin with? and if that is the case doesn't that mean that nothing gets made anymore? 
we can't simply just lok at one extreme of this situation and ignore the other. There is a reason why stuff like this even exists to begin with. And with a growing dependence on the internet, things like this become more evident. Think about this, when was the last tim eyou bought a DVD/blu-ray movie. Or when was the last time you bought a music CD? The internet has killed music distribution of old, killed paper print publications and will ultimately kill video content distrubution if left as is, these are simple facts. Thats why I ask, look at the problems on both sides of the fence, and try and see if you can come up with a solution that works for everyone. As long as consumers are still actively pirating content, then content providers have a right to do whatever the hell they want to do.