The phrase “No amount of skill will protect you from the sheer luck of a chronic dumbass” popped into my head and if that aint a Big Mood™ i dunno what is
The idea that film piracy “costs” anyone anything is fallacious, because it assumes that for every film you download, you would definitely have paid for it otherwise. Which just isn’t true. In most cases, you just wouldn’t have seen it.
Like if I download some film from 1974 that sounds cool, they’re assuming that I would have bought the DVD. But I wouldn’t have bought the DVD, I just wouldn’t have seen it.
And what about when you download foreign films that haven’t even been officially released in your country, how much does that “cost” the economy?
As a film student (and soon-to-be film graduate), I can confirm this.
as a film student
(and soon-to-be film graduate)
i can confirm this
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The thing is that the lengths media companies go through to combat piracy likely costs them more than if they just let piracy happen. Look at Nintendo, they’ve been trying to combat emulators for years because it allows people to play their old games for free. But they don’t fill the demand for retro games to its fullest potential. Their efforts as yet to fill that demand have been to add virtual console games on their systems at exorbitant prices and releasing glorified plug and play systems with engineered scarcity. They don’t realize that if they made these games affordable and accessible they could make much more money and save themselves the time they’d be spending shutting down emulator sites.
The solution to piracy that most companies don’t want recognize is to play by the pirate’s rules. Spotify and to a lesser extent Crunchyroll have already figured this out. Instead of fighting piracy, companies need to change the way media is distributed. Spotify has literally changed the music industry in such a fundamental way that people don’t even think about music piracy anymore. Why pirate songs when you can download Spotify and listen to all the songs for free with a few ads?
The film industry needs to understand this. Old films become scarce and people can’t afford to go to the movies all the time so the best solution is streaming. But sites like Netflix and Hulu don’t have as many movies as they should and the ones they do have are subject to removal, that needs to change. How am I supposed to watch all of the Mad Max series if it’s not on any streaming sites? Well I’ll just pirate it of course. Can’t find that Studio Ghibli film you like, pirate it. The film industry can’t fight it, piracy sites will always come back, but what they can do is engineer a entertainment industry that’s more accessible so that people don’t resort to piracy.
People don’t do piracy for piracy’s sake. I don’t watch shitty copies of movies at the risk of my computer getting a virus for kicks. Piracy exists because there are people who want to watch movies and the only people willing to help are bootleggers.
also: the entertainment industry as a whole needs to be better about giving people copies of things that they own, 100%, no questions asked.
if you pay for something, you should have the ability to (for example) watch it anywhere, including without internet access. you should be able to rip a digital copy for your own personal use. you should be able to always have access to it, not know that at any time a streaming service or music platform could go down. you should be able to take screenshots, or burn CDs, or make playlists, or any legal use, without a problem.
one reason I don’t use Spotify but still prefer to buy music on CD is because with a CD you own the files you rip outright. nobody seems to think about how when Netflix goes, or Hulu goes, or Spotify goes, the things we’ve paid for won’t be around anymore. nobody thinks about how Apple could yank our movies we’ve paid full-price for off of iTunes at any time.
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