The future of copyrighted entertainment is already a dying industry and rampant piracy is just the effect of technology eliminating safe means of distribution. Instead of fighting it every step of the way, and creating enemies of the very people you intend to sell to; why not look for other ways to move a product? Video games turned to FTP models (which is a double edged sword.) While they are re-cooperating profit lost to piracy, they are also alienating the art form video gaming used to be. Music has chosen to do digital distribution and vinyl as its primary distribution methods. Vinyl being more of an enthusiast product; digital distribution still has gaping holes because once something is paid for once, it can be loaded to P2P sites for mass distribution without the artist seeing a cent. Millions, if not billions spent by interpol, the FBI, and other major police forces have discovered the piracy scourge is nothing more than a hydra; cut off one head and 3 more spring up. (An observation of Kickass Torrent and The Pirate bay.) Lets really think about what piracy really is. For years the media and entertainment industry has gouged buyers. The media industry thought it could plug all the holes in its leaky profit boat by turning on the public; which has lead to publishers like Warner Brothers and Sony being given the reputation of Greedy Bastards. This in turn gives people less inclined to buy media more of a "divine purpose" to steal media from corporate sows. From the very beginning, these companies put pop icons on a pedestal and created products out of people; charging an arm and a leg for merchandise. The revolt is in the form of people choosing to still consume their products but shafting them for their arrogance. The movie industry has been dominated by 250 million dollar pictures that are unoriginal and aside from a big budget; leaving the audience longing for a better film. The response? People no LONGER TRUST the media and their offerings to be of quality. People pirate because they cannot trust that their minuscule budget they have for entertainment will give them a quality experience. Until the media industry starts re-thinking their strategy; the whole entertainment industry is going to be a volunteers only space. Meaning, just like many of the earliest composers; we will see penniless artists creating works of beauty for nothing at all. The industry itself killed this art by over commercializing and bastardizing its beauty with hooks and ropes to bait you into buying yet another britney spears album, or a zac efron poster. Rather than thinking about how to entertain you, they chose cheap thrills and empty gratification as their delivery.
Posts by kpmbrink123
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
