With the advent of software like Napster, internet piracy became out of control. It is by far the most commonly known and associated with illegal introduction to file transferring. No longer were people confined to buying CD’s or other mediums for content. At the time people could share music worldwide and not have to pay a dime. And not only were they limited to music but any files they wanted! This was a breakthrough for file transfer and it wasn’t too long after its introduction that the government stepped in and said “no more”. After the government intervention other programs like Limewire and Bareshare popped up. Nowadays if one were to type in “pirates of caribbean movie download” into google, one might find 278,000 results. Of those results many would contain links and torrents to download the movie. This is the case with anything one wants to find on the internet.
Although I do not agree with piracy to some degree I am not completely against it. It would be obvious to explain that piracy is bad and illegal so let me instead mention some things I feel it benefited from/is the cause for piracy. For one thing…it has led people to find things they would never have experienced. Things from across the world that people felt others needed to have. Things like songs and videos that would never have come to their country for whatever reasons. This I believe is not wrong. I have many friends also who have downloaded thousands and thousands of movies/songs legitimately and illegally from iTunes/Bittorrent/street vendors and various other means. The biggest reason for their piracy, generally, is not to just get it for free but simply because they don’t have money to download the movies/music/content they want. Something I do not understand while Im on the subject of downloading movies/music are the artists. They complain that they are not making money from people who are illegally downloading their content…but are they really making money on an album/movie when 99% of the profit is to pay off the production/publishing/recording fees? With movies, they release directors cut after directors cut, remastered version this and bluray version that. Why should I have to buy the same movie three times (which I do)…Most of the time with music they make their money off of merchandising and tours, so wouldn’t it make more sense to have millions of people download the song and like it and want to see them live, then a few thousand buy there CD’s which aren’t even making them money anyways? And on a side note: when was the last time you saw an MTV cribs where the artists were living in a cardboard box in an alleyway? ALL of the episodes show artists living in multi-million dollar houses, driving 3+ expensive cars, and millions of dollars to spend…
I think that movies/music/software/fonts/books after a certain period of time should be free to anyone that wants them. That way, initially, the early adopters and people who “have to have it” will pay and eventually everyone will be able to own the materials. It may sound foolish but it’s an option. The new wave of digital distribution control is downloadable content. After a certain amount of time it deletes itself. While this sounds full proof its not. Although we are advancing rapidly technology wise we still have a long way to go. Internet connection speeds vary/storage issues vary/and the biggest issue of all is that eventually someone will find an exploit. If it’s made by man it can be undone by man.
Even though I may sound contradictory Im still a bit old fashioned and a sucker. I would rather own hardcopies of all my content. Yes I could buy some underground boot leg DVD/CD and see the movie for free or before it hits retail stores but I don’t. I enjoy crisp clean pictures/sound and there’s just something about having a hard copy in your hands… Maybe it’s the satisfaction knowing that I purchased it with my money…maybe Im just crazy. I believe, however, that the younger generations are less inclined to feel this way as they have grown up with Piracy and have probably been doing it since they started using computers (think high school students) and will continue to do so more regularly. Piracy isn’t going anywhere…its here to stay.
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