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Originally Posted by Caged Great
The problem is that this issue has broken through the 100th monkey barrier. Millions and Millions of people will download regardless of what the consequences are. The genie is out of the bottle. There are two ways that you can approach the parameters of the new paradigm. One, you can try to punish the millions of ner do wells, which won't stop the issue at all and will serve nothing other than proving that you are colossal dicks. Or shape your business model to be increasingly fair and ubiquitous as possible. Piracy even then would still happen, but you would have more customers than you otherwise would, which would increase your bottom line at the end of the day.
It's actually evolved beyond a moral issue of theft and intellectual rights. It's about a group (RIAA) that are fighting the fact that people want content that fits easily into their lives instead of trying to provide that content in exactly the manner that was fitting in 1930.
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+1. Bang on post. Hollywood is forcing a 90 year old medium of presenting movies. They should allow a viewer to download a new release, for a fee, to watch at their leisure. People would still go to the cinema, because it's always an experience seeing something on the big screen. But people's lives and schedules are busier than ever, making the option of watching a brand new movie at home more appealing.
Take the music industry as an example. iTunes and other pay programs introduce paying for new releases and it takes off. I'm not exactly sure if music piracy has declined, but I know I haven't had the need to illegally download anything since the napster/limewire days about 10 years ago. I believe the same would happen to the movie industry if the same was applied.