Monday, August 28, 2017

Losing ten million, twenty million to piracy doesn't bother some people. So let's have MORE.

People don't know how to stop piracy but they know how to document it. Odd, huh?

Somehow, it's easy to discover all the ways the McGregor-Mayweather fight was pirated. NOBODY did anything about, and NOBODY is calling for stricter rules and punishment for violations of copyright. VARIETY has all the figures:

The message being sent is "We now accept piracy as a way of life. We have NO intention of trying to push through a bill such as SOPA or anything like it. Like roach parts in the peanut butter, or the fact that in an urban city breathing the air is like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, we ARE COOL WITH IT.

Besides, piracy only affects, what, movie theaters, mom and pop bookstores and record stores, libraries, actors and actresses, writers, singers, athletes...

The rationalization is clear enough. We've got plenty of people paying $99 for a PPV fight. People can brag about paying for a fight and leaking it to Periscope or Facebook or Twitter. It's like sharks swiveling through the ocean with lampreys sucking their bellies. And so what if Communist websites make more money via piracy and that money goes to charmers like Putin or Kim Jung-Un. "Balance of power" is too complicated. Just think, "I got to seeeeee the fight for freeeeeee."

And every movie and TV show and book and anything on CD, DVD, vinyl. What a wonderful world. Shrug shrug. You can't put the genie back in the bottle, dude.

So accept piracy like you accept your significant other cheating on you, somebody hacking into your computer and stealing your identity, or some religious fanatic blowing up a rock concert. It's ALL good.

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