A pro-piracy rant

[alexandral]

I have been on holidays so I guess my monthly rant quota is still unused. :D

I am an "honest" pro-piracy person. I think that things like selling children's Disney DVDs for 18 pounds a piece or even worse, selling little tiny chips with one single Ninetendo DS kids game on them for 30 pounds a piece is a monopolistic extortion that justifies any means against it.

This was brought on by the following BBC article: Musicians hit out at piracy plans. I absolutely agree with some of the statements. Any proposed restrictions and actions against file-sharing will not work. The ways of filesharing will be changing ahead of the ways of restrictions. Instead of development of restrictive mechanisms there should be development of better and easier ways to download high-quality media content for accessible prices.

** END OF THE RANT **

Comments

[alexburnvictim.livejournal.com]

I actually read a blog a while back about how music sharing promotes some level of new listeners. With things like Pandora, you 're introduced to a larger music selection based on your tastes, you may or may not have ever found that artist had it been through traditional ways.

I think they could fix a lot of pirating if they gave us more of a selection of music buying methods. Right now itunes/Zune is leading the industry because other download companies don't have as much exposure or are more expensive. :P It's kinda sad to see that pirating is still that big of a deal. I know the majority of my friends at least attempt to support the artists in other ways than buying music. (ie; concerts/posters/shirts etc)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

You see, this is what I think too. In music industry, at least we have itunes/Zune, but I would like to see more companies and more variety. With films/tv shows/games - I don't think Itunes format works well for me. My favourite video format is avi and I would like to see more on-like stores with a variety of file formats.

The other thing, that free downloads might overall not decrease , but increase revenues from music and films. the mechanism is simple: with free downloading I have a chance to try a variety of things, thus leading me to buying more of the music or films or TV shows that I find good.

And the third question is TV shows. In UK we pay TV license. It also seems that a large percentage of revenues from TV shows comes from advertisement (otherwise no-one would have been bothered with ratings so much).

[alexburnvictim.livejournal.com]

I would love a chance to download .avi's :\ Especially for my foreign stuff. I download a lot of dramas/OST's from China/Japan and I would love to pay for it to support my artists but overseas shipping is really expensive. ~~

I like what Zune is doing with the unlimited downloading, and letting you keep like 5 mp3's a month of what you like. It lets you listen to a lot of music and decide whats really worth keeping. More people should do that imo.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I like what Zune is doing with the unlimited downloading, and letting you keep like 5 mp3's a month of what you like. It lets you listen to a lot of music and decide whats really worth keeping. More people should do that imo.

YAY! Thank you fo r the info. My daughter keeps asking for an iPod and when I get it for her, I think I'll encourage her to use Zune

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

Sigh, I feel the same way a lot of the time. Particularly when I am not allowed to pay money to buy the legitimate product (because I am not in the US) simply because the corporates haven't got their act together yet and figured out a way to revenue share across border. Grrrrrr

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I agree completely - this is one of the good points. I seems that the file downloading technologies have been existing already for at least a decade. I don't understand why is it taking so long for media companies to sort out the possible ways of selling media content over the Internet to anywhere in the world.

[living-ink.livejournal.com]

Instead of development of restrictive mechanisms there should be development of better and easier ways to download high-quality media content for accessible prices.

I completely agree.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

** rants some more ** But I hope it will get sorted somehow. One day, may be, I'll just me a ble to get on "Amazon" and download my favourites films/TV shows for a good price! (this is my dream :D)

[trailer-spot.livejournal.com]

The whole piracy/downloading thing is a difficult subject. But what is pretty outrageous is that an industry is able to lobby for laws to cut off internet access for people they don't like. There are trying to lobby for something similar here too. We're not there yet but there are some dangerous developments and it's probably only a question of time.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

But what is pretty outrageous is that an industry is able to lobby for laws to cut off internet access for people they don't like. There are trying to lobby for something similar here too. We're not there yet but there are some dangerous developments and it's probably only a question of time.

I think that in reality these things will never work, even if there will be laws in place. For one thing, to be tracking down individual downloaders is very much not in the interests of Internet Provider. We had some new laws introduced a year ago and - nothing happened.