no they dont.
they just pay a one of price to buy the film which is a very high price including royalties to the company
ie. to buy one copy of a film they would pay about £ 50
its not done on a "each time it rents out" basis
Illegal file sharing on the Internet, what should we do?
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no they dont.
they just pay a one of price to buy the film which is a very high price including royalties to the company
ie. to buy one copy of a film they would pay about £ 50
its not done on a "each time it rents out" basis
As someone else stated I'd be happy to pay a monthly flat fee to access any digital media available (be it game, movie, music, or software). £30 or so a month is both affordable and a reasonable rate and may provide the artists a reasonable living.
Cant see this happening though as there will always be people at the other end of the business (the artists, promotors, managers) all bickering about what percentage of the whole pie they are entitled to. Whilst the world is obsessed with fame and celebrity this will always be the case. Whilst celebrities over emphasise their own importance and have sycophants blowing smoke up their a*** this will always be the case. Heck, so you put out a good tune, in what way does that make you better than say a nurse or paramedic?
....and yes I do write music, and am in a band, and if I write something half decent I want to give it away for free.
Cant see this happening though as there will always be people at the other end of the business (the artists, promotors, managers) all bickering about what percentage of the whole pie they are entitled to. Whilst the world is obsessed with fame and celebrity this will always be the case. Whilst celebrities over emphasise their own importance and have sycophants blowing smoke up their a*** this will always be the case. Heck, so you put out a good tune, in what way does that make you better than say a nurse or paramedic?
....and yes I do write music, and am in a band, and if I write something half decent I want to give it away for free.
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the majority of people will do anything that benefits them if they think they will not get caught, thats just human nature.
morally? well i believe on the value of ideas, and that intellectual labour is as valid as a person making a wardrope or bed etc, but for me this is mainly in the form of credit, i.e. i am the one who discovered this thing etc.. or made it, for someone to steal your ideas and takes credit for them is not right..
piracy is a small % really, more sales wouldnt get the person much richer anyway, just all the other guys who feed of it all.. etc etc
They pay a hefty royalty to the industries to be able to do it. No idea how much this is though.
within one week, every pirated game that I have seen which is only available through steam, is unplayable/unusable.Say what?
No it isn't. Pirated HL2, ep1, ep2, L4D before buying and had no problems, l4d works fine in multiplayer too with networking apps like hamachi. Get you facts straight first.
The only issue was with l4d that when you uninstalled it, you needed to fix your fonts in windows. Game (l4d) itself was fine and never had any problems in the hl2 games.
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That *isn't* human nature. Humans only survived because we work together, it was our defining trait - the society overcame great problems because the group > any individual. Whilst individuals *do* survive on the benefits of others, as soon as a community grows, it is not sustainable, and the selfish individuals will be cast out.
The problem is that selfishness is not scalable, thus we have the tragedy of the commons. But piracy is not about selfishness, it is about breaking and reshaping business models. We *all* benefit when information is shared. Individuals have been exploiting this "lack of sharing" for personal gain for a long time, and piracy breaks that model.
Lack of sharing does not scale, it is as simple as that. It is a dam, waiting to be broken. This is a classic study in the benefits to the individual vs the benefits to the group. The music industry making millions of dollars might benefit society in terms of giving jobs and stimulating the economy, but it also wastes enormous amounts of resources in terms of law enforcement and wasted creativity. It exists to benefit the few thousand individuals who have a direct financial gain from the system, however, it has a great enemy - humanity itself. Because it is in our *nature* to share.
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File sharing is great and Pirate Bay is Mecca.
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Says the man with a TPB signature quoting "I'll download your soul"
yes i suck at sig making, want to make one for me?
*sigh* So defensive over something so .. insignificant in life.
So you have to use a VPN to play a multiplayer game.. so can you just jump on any old L4D server or whatever? Oh.. no you can't. HL2 is updated all the time, gg trying to play that after a week. You go to all that hassle just to save, what is it, £15? lol, povvo.
You know I have all those games on steam now, I just hate it when people are lying and implying piracy has all these disadvantagesblahblah. I just try all games before buying... All that hassle is 10 minutes of work, and 15quid? You mean 45 euros, we get ripped off in the eurozone by steam if you didn't notice. 10 minutes of work for 45 euros is a very good deal. HL2 hasn't really had any significant updates from release, I have finished the games both legitimately and pirated, same experience. Who's the poor person here, you are the liar here. I don't know why I reply to people talking out of their arse.
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I would personally go along the route of advertising. Games can put up posters and labels in the game, this could mean that the game could be sold cheaper/free.
With films I would put in adverts, making it also cheaper/free. If you like it, you could always buy the movie without the adverts in it. If you dont you have to lump the adverts in the film.
Not sure with music but I cant be expected to solve all the worlds media issues in one sitting.
With films I would put in adverts, making it also cheaper/free. If you like it, you could always buy the movie without the adverts in it. If you dont you have to lump the adverts in the film.
Not sure with music but I cant be expected to solve all the worlds media issues in one sitting.
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Heheh I remember watching 'The Island' and though apparently the world had come to an end, the virtual boxing match was sponsored by Xbox
I would personally go along the route of advertising. Games can put up posters and labels in the game, this could mean that the game could be sold cheaper/free.
With films I would put in adverts, making it also cheaper/free. If you like it, you could always buy the movie without the adverts in it. If you dont you have to lump the adverts in the film.
Not sure with music but I cant be expected to solve all the worlds media issues in one sitting.
Problem is it's already happening without products prices being dropped.
Absoutley. This. If it was my livelehood then aslong as igot a decent standard of living from it i would happily just keep going. Some people just want too much sometimes