"Dear HBO, Disney, Netflix Et Al: Fragmenting Online TV Lets Piracy Keep Its Biggest Advantage"
Maybe so, but having everything in one place creates monopolies and that is worse for consumers. The biggest companies would just use their financial power to keep smaller companies out of the market. Look at the monopoly Sky has on UK paid TV.
Ah, the 'you must be a pirate' tax that affects everyone whether they are a pirate or not.
More expense for users who want to buy a hard drive.
More expense for businesses who need to buy hard drives to back up customer (and other) important data, the cost of which will inevitably be passed on to customers.
Why punish someone ACCUSED of committing a crime? Not CONVICTED but ACCUSED. You would never punish someone ACCUSED of murder so why is copyright infringement different.
Whatever anyone thinks public urination is NOT a sex offence so why can one be added to the sex offenders register for this?
I would also say that the possession of child pornography should also not be an offence. Creation and distribution, yes; but not possession. To those who disagree, is it really protecting children? Is there less child pornography in the world as a result? It's the same as going after people for illegally downloading music rather than those distributing it.
It is not morally wrong at all. Knowledge is meant to be shared because if knowledge is not shared openly, how the hell is the human race meant to better itself? Would we have the scientific advances we have today without the open sharing of knowledge? I don't think we would have.
I will tell you what is morally wrong. It is morally wrong to keep important scientific ideas hidden behind a wall of copyright/patents/trademarks rather than having them out in the open where they can be discussed and improved.
We are entering a post antibiotic era because doctors keep prescribing them for every little ailment so that they are losing their effectiveness against the conditions they are meant to fight. Doctors need to stop handing them out like sweets.
The 'war on piracy' is not about making more money or even stopping piracy. It is about trying to claw back their 'right' to control what music we listen to, what books we read, and what movies or TV shows we watch. File sharing websites help independent content control and THAT, more than anything else, is what terrifies them.
The more file sharing emerges as a content delivery mechanism and the more crowd funding services emerge as legitimate funding mechanisms, the more irrelevant and obsolete these corporations will become.
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Maybe so, but having everything in one place creates monopolies and that is worse for consumers. The biggest companies would just use their financial power to keep smaller companies out of the market. Look at the monopoly Sky has on UK paid TV.
We need a balanced approach.
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More expense for users who want to buy a hard drive.
More expense for businesses who need to buy hard drives to back up customer (and other) important data, the cost of which will inevitably be passed on to customers.
How have these morons not died out by now?
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Take away their Corrie, Eastenders, TOWIE, Dancing on Ice, I'm a Celebrity...etc, though, and all bets are off.
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Why can idiots not see this?
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I would also say that the possession of child pornography should also not be an offence. Creation and distribution, yes; but not possession. To those who disagree, is it really protecting children? Is there less child pornography in the world as a result? It's the same as going after people for illegally downloading music rather than those distributing it.
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I will tell you what is morally wrong. It is morally wrong to keep important scientific ideas hidden behind a wall of copyright/patents/trademarks rather than having them out in the open where they can be discussed and improved.
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DHS, FBI, CIA, DEA, ICE, NSA.... the list goes on.
Couldn't their functions be rolled into just 1 or 2 agencies? It just seems so inefficient to me.
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I do. I have Netflix and Love Film subscriptions.
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The more file sharing emerges as a content delivery mechanism and the more crowd funding services emerge as legitimate funding mechanisms, the more irrelevant and obsolete these corporations will become.
THAT is what the 'war on piracy' is really about.
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