Lawmakers continue to push for strict Internet control legislation at the behest of establishment mega-media. Congressmen such as Lamar Smith have even gone as far as to propose government IP Czars to supplant the wave of private copyright trolls filing frivolous lawsuits.
Despite the government's history of failed attempts to control the Internet, the legal battle for control over the Internet rages on.
The infographic below does an exemplary job at pointing out the major economic fallacies and realities surrounding Hollywood's piracy fear mongering. Just one example of this shows that the Recording Industry Association of America has sued a staggering 12,000+ people for an average of $150,000 per song - and music sales have still increased for the first time since 2004.
The future of information sharing is on the line, and it is important that the facts are made clear.
While the livelihood of artists should be a central issue, there is much to suggest that artists have more tools than ever to express themselves in more creative ways, and to earn a living in novel ways that are still yet being conceived. Is it worth throwing away the entire free-flow of information that the Internet has come to represent strictly to bring pirates under control? We welcome your thoughts in the comment section under the infographic posted below.
A Crash Course in Piracy
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3 comments:
I agree, anyone who is creative enough to produce music or a movie certainly is creative enough to develop unique ways to market the material.
the people that illegally download movies and music usually do so because they dont have the money to buy the media. if they didnt download it they probably wouldnt ever see/listen to it.
About the decline of the PC software piracy:
It is a fact that thanks to the enthusiasm and goodwill of the people of the Free Software and Open Source, and freeware developers, we have thousands of excellent applications and operating systems that are distributed and downloaded from the Internet at no charge, and there are even free versions of respected commercial applications made for the user who does not need the full versions or can not pay for them.
Appreciating and supporting this amiable effort and knowing, using and disclosing what those offer is the best way to say to the big corporations that is not good to waste time cracking the bloatware that they are selling us.
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