The bigger iTunes and all digital downloads have become then piracy has also grown exponentially.
Its growth is exponential only in terms of bandwidth consumption, not actual discrete users. Invariably, most of that growth is due to a shift in typical media size, from music, then video then to 1080p.
if legal alternatives actually worked then piracy would decline but it hasn't its' growth actually outstrips any legal download service.
Everything "works"...to a degree, which makes the modeling of interactions simply more difficult. And it doesn't help that the Industry's claims of lost revenue have been
overstated, and probably in many cases grossly so. For example, the RIAA lawsuit against Limewire is claiming lost revenue in excess of
80 years worth of music sales...even though Limewire has only been around for
10.
Say again? Effectively, the RIAA's claim is that
just Limewire is what prevented them from realizing nothing less than an 800% increase in their business for every year of the past decade, which flies in the face of reality.
I know calculators go back a long time. The keyword here is programmability.
What? You've never programmed an analog computer? Suddenly, I feel old.
It is, because it very effectively illustrates just how consumer-hostile the product has become, and its all because the supplier is shortsightedly chasing after a few extra bucks with each additional trailer, etc.
in any other walk of life where law breaking was so common place....speeding, shoplifting etc. then the police would crack down like a ton of bricks. There is no deterrent.
Apparently, you don't drive on the same highways I do...
The threat of action doesn't work because it never comes...no other law is treated like this ... if society cannot police its self with stuff like this then big brother will.
In the case of Copyright, the Legislative branch has been immorally on the take from Lobbyists Quid Pro Quo. Big Brother will only enforce that which suits its interests, so to highlight an increasingly unjust law through enforcement would only serve to undermine the legitimacy of Big Brother's source of authority.
you can dress up your own actions in as much verbiage as you like but the simple truth is this...
theft.
True by classical definitions with blinders on, but by necessity, that morality paradigm also invokes the question of if the accusation is justified.
Much of the entire 'Pirates Bay' thing effectively is about questioning the morality of Intellectual Property in its current (modern) implementation...which is to say that Copyrights are Forever. With nothing passing anymore into the Public Domain, there is a backlash - - and the piracy of content is merely a manifestation of it, which is not completely economically based...the graph being referenced above is an element to it too. As the saying goes
"Ignore at your own peril" (sic).
Granted, this is a meta to the entire discussion, but it is one that is part of the underlying foundation and thus can't be simplistically ignored. And yes, this includes the longstanding principle of 'Fair Use' which has since been effectively made illegal in some jurisdictions.
And a preemptive comment: this is not
"More insane denial to support theft." This is simply a messenger of what the peasants with pitchforks are doing outside, your Majesty, and not an endorsement thereof.
-hh
