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Originally Posted by zamler
Do you honestly think it will work? As for "rampant activity" yes it's out there. But smart companies find a way to capitalize on it, not attempt to crush it. Mp3 tech was popularized by piracy because the 10:1 compression made the file sizes feasible. The VCR when it first came out was said to be the end of the movie industry. It turned out to be a massive revenue machine, in many cases home movie sales eclipsed the box office take.
iTunes is a very important and vibrant revenue source for the music industry. STEAM is capitalizing on fast connections to distribute games, in fact it's very similar to how people pirate using bittorrent. There will always be those that pirate, but the key is to make the legit version affordable and have enough advantages where most people will just use the legit service instead. You can't stop all piracy, it's been going on since the beginning of time. But the arseholes at the RIAA and the like would have you believe that piracy is going to destroy entire industries, which is completely false.
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I think this is pretty much on the mark.
The private sector has pretty much dropped the ball when it comes to capitalizing on internet-based media. It seems like most of them are trying enter the online market using old methods, or rejecting it all together.
A lot of people in my generation have completely stopped buying music and movies in traditional formats, and many of them have stopped paying them altogether. Organizations like the RIAA aren't going to get these consumers back without adapting their products to their wants.