LPR001 opened this issue on Jan 21, 2016 ยท 83 posts
Razor42 posted Thu, 28 January 2016 at 10:01 PM
So I believe the lost in revenue because of Piracy is not as great as I am being told by other that sell on that site as well.. like it is in the music industry.
There are many other impacts beyond purely monetary that need to be considered.
I was reading on a somewhat dodgy site, people who believe piracy is a freedom of information activity. Seeing themselves as community based free thinkers and digital revolutionaries. On this thread they had taken to speculating about 'What if piracy was legalised globally?'. One of the first things they all agreed on is, it would bring an end to most of the existing media structures. When asked 'Well, where will new content and media come from when these media giants fall?' The answer was immediately put forward, well because the pirates are so creative and morally sound in motivation they will create the new media themselves. Of course it will all be opensource and free to everyone. I thought 'Wow, that's great pirates are willing to work for free, with 0 income for the betterment of mankind to bring us all media content'. I guess they can just depend on someone else to feed, shelter, clothe and protect them as they will be in effect 'media monks'.
In reality, it's purely a delusion being put forward to justify their actions as not only a destructive one, and it also helps to ease their conscious. Most people engaged in this kind of behaviour are quite misinformed about it's impact and do work diligently to create that margin of doubt of it being a victimless crime. It actually made me think of what the world would be like where media was nothing more than a global 'Please be kind rewind' project. Sounds pretty sad to me.