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RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping

53 点作者 alt_将近 13 年前

10 条评论

user49598将近 13 年前
The way we (obviously not all of us) think about culture is pretty fundamentally flawed IMHO. Copyright exists only to create incentive to produce more copyrighted works(aka culture) and not explicitly make anyone money. Culture can't, and shouldn't be contained. When you release a song, movie, drawing, game, some source code, you've given it to the world. You took everything the world gave you, got inspired, worked hard, and gave back. To think that you in some way own those vibrations, or light recordings, or bits is kind of childish. You've been granted a temporary monopoly on their production and that is all.<p>Should you make some money? Absolutely, but pretending like anyone actually owns any intellectual property is a mental deficiency induced by our childish need for control.<p>In the face of unprecedented sharing, all culture producing industries are thriving. More money comes out of movies, music, games, and other software than ever before. So anyone that really thinks that they can create culture and then <i>own</i> it can cram it.
JamesLeonis将近 13 年前
While I take anything the RIAA says with a brick of salt, I am very curious how they know hard drive swapping is a bigger source of piracy than P2P. This boggles my mind. Is there some underground network of hard drives that I'm not aware of?
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prpx将近 13 年前
They seemed to have misplaced the "burning/ripping from others" section.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy</a>
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zumda将近 13 年前
Interesting to see that P2P has gone down 6% and downloads up 3%, whereas physical media has stayed the same. It's clear where the growth market is, now the RIAA just has to read their own numbers.<p>The one thing that puzzles me is that the numbers for burning have gone up. Who in the time of wireless networking, huge disk drives and USB sticks burns a DVD? I just can't see this segment growing 6% in a year.
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ChrisNorstrom将近 13 年前
In collage someone passed around a pirated DVD of "Shawn of the Dead" in class. Everyone just put in their dvd-rom (feels so weird saying dvd-rom / disc drive) copied it, and then passed it along to the next person till most of the 80 guys in the room had it. Not to mention the sharing that went on over home wireless networks. Each student would share their music / video / software folders and make them public to anyone on their LAN. You could then browse their collection and copy over whatever you wanted. That's not something stoppable.<p>Sharing is an evolutionary trait among humans, we have an inner instinct to share the things we find useful with others. Despite the bullshit excuses and justifications and delusional utopian ideology that many file sharers babble about, it can and does cause damage. However, p2p file sharing is an extraordinary distribution platform. Maybe even the most efficient, effective, wide reaching distribution platform for anything digital. If we can design with it in mind and find a way to monetize around it / despite it, I think we can all live happily ever after. For instance, Star Wars made more money from the merchandise than it ever did with the films. Even if all the star wars films were made free to the public, it still would have still made massive amounts of profit. Not all movie franchises can follow that path but it is a creative alternative and proof-of-concept that you can make money from movies without charging for the movie itself.<p>In other worlds, use freely distributed digital content to advertise and solicit sales of real world products &#38; services.
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Mordor将近 13 年前
I think they are missing the point here: each track <i>was</i> paid for, but shared twice (on average). Perhaps music rentals and broadcast would paint a fuller picture?
mtgx将近 13 年前
As soon as we have the technology to monitor's everyone's moves offline and see what they do or <i>think</i>, you can bet RIAA will try to use it. Hopefully they don't exist anymore by then.
ben1040将近 13 年前
So instead of giving a mix tape to that girl you fancy, it's now the custom to hand her a 16GB USB drive instead?
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thronemonkey将近 13 年前
The sneakernet returns! I predict that this trend will only increase with time.
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bluedanieru将近 13 年前
I'm sure they won't let that stop them from continuing to fund the erosion of civil rights worldwide. The assholes.