And there's the question.
Who are these pirates?
'piracy, under no circumstances, not now, not then, and never in the future has no impact on the sale of the items which are pirated'
Though there are undoubtably people who will copy something and share it on-line, and there are again undoubtably people who will download stuff that is made freely available online - who are these people?
Do they care about the work in question or the money?
Since both side of the equation above do not swap any money it can't be the latter, so it must mean that the people doing the 'pirating' are necessarily people who, on the one side, want people to see this stuff, and on the other side people that want to see the stuff in question.
I put it to you, members of the reg forum reading this, that the MPAA etc. are ignorantly interfering with a very effective publicity and promotion campaign run by people that think the content is worth something.
I further put it to you that a far more effective campaign by the MPAA etc. would be to make the audience of their products share the files as far and wide as possible 'tell your friends, neighbours, people you meet about this' and have a link available for purchasing the official product, make donations or a flattr button.
After all peoples disposable income is fairly fixed - and people will only be spending it on what they feel is worthwhile, if they don't know about your product you're not going to be getting their money.
Or the MPAA can carry on with their 'backed into a corner' approach and we can all point and laugh as they get dragged into the future.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
