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[Dangelus]

X did a great post. Piracy is illegal but content providers should make it easier for the consumer to obtain their content legally and not restrict how they use it.

iTunes is a great example (at least for music). When their audio files were DRMed many people didn't but because they were restricted. You could only play them on a number of devices and you couldn't just move the file to a portable device etc. this got opened up and so did the purchasing floodgates. The content providers need to realise that their customers aren't the ones going around pirating and distributing their content. The people doing that didn't pay for it in the first place! It is the TV and movie producers who need to modernise now. It's happening but it's a slow process.

The other side of it is fair use. You should be able to back up your content for personal use. You should be able to use clips or exceprts of content in a creative and non profit way. (As is podcasts!) Recent legislation has tried to cover all this as a form of piracy which is wrong.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

*sigh*

Well, good to see I can stir up two pages worth of debates when I'm in class.  I did not link those pages to justify piracy. True, maybe I should have said something more than just put them right here.  So I can clearly understand why confusion would have been raised and I apologize for making such a post without explaining the intention to you guys.  It won't happen again.  

The intention of those articles were legitimate studies on the actual effects of piracy which so far have been few and far between.  I found it interesting that when they actually studied the effects of movie studio actions, that they found the movie studios can have an effect on piracy.  Both positive and negative.  It just goes to show that companies have more power over piracy than they care to admit.  The intention of the article is study how you can combat piracy with piracy still being available, which lets face it.  Piracy will always exist in one form or the other.  It has for the past two thousand years.  But getting more knowledge about why people pirate can help studios and companies figure out ways to combat it.  

I think learning from the past events with Megaupload and such that breaking the constitution is not the way of combating piracy.  

@Al, the article never said that people are being forced to pirate.  But they are more likely to choose piracy rather than waiting.  Which is sadly, human nature for the most part.  I, on the other hand, have decided to simply exercise patience for it to show up on Netflix.  

My 2cents.

-King