Why piracy isnt bad

It is also fashionable for actors and directors to cook up astronomical figures of notional losses due to piracy. Liang and others have questioned that too. Alexander too makes a similar point. First, it is argued that piracy is not a crime but a pricing problem. Piracy is rampant because the conditions of high price of content, low incomes and cheap digital technologies are also rampant.

It is reiterated here that understanding the lack of access is imperative to understanding piracy. There is an exhaustive chapter in the same publication on piracy and India which you might want to read.

Even on the face of these facts — that piracy happens because of lack of access, and that the astronomical financial losses quoted are only notional — there has only been rhetorical demands for stricter law-enforcement against content pirates. If people are downloading and watching the movie after the release, then it is because the producers and distributors of the movie failed to match the demand. A version of this article was previously published here. Skip to main content.

In other words, they are risky to produce, and piracy is decimating our already tenuous ability to do so. And, the next generation of storytellers? They may have a difficult time getting the opportunity to tell their stories.

Counterpoint : Hey now, Greg — nobody loves fair use more than we do! And, as evidenced by our name, we love creativity! We get annoyed, when internet platforms pervert the definition of fair use in order to make it as hard as possible for copyright holders to claim infringement on works they own that are uploaded by other people.

Tens of millions of these kinds of infringements happen daily on internet platforms, but the site owners duck behind fair use rhetoric in order to continue profiting from the traffic driven by these uses. Meanwhile, independent rights holders, in particular, have almost no remedies available to address this ongoing problem.

What they choose to do with that copyright from that point on — for example, selling or licensing it to a company that can take their little story and make it big — is entirely up to them! Regardless of who owns the copyright, it provides the legal protection to ensure that the owner is compensated fairly.

Without it, there would be little incentive to continue producing and distributing additional creative works. Intellectual property, including copyright, is the fuel of innovation in America, not only feeding our culture with arts and entertainment, but propping up advancements in science, technology, medicine, and beyond! Because it incentivizes the expression of new ideas, a First Amendment right, while allowing the speaker to decide how and when to share them, so that the speaker will always have the incentive to speak freely.

Free speech and copyright go hand in hand. Piracy poses an existential threat to the creative works we love. It helps fund dangerous black-market criminal enterprises and devalues the contributions that make our culture diverse, progressive, and fascinating. Ending it once and for all seems like a no-brainer, and yet every day we are faced with new dissenters. Thanks for following us — and thanks to the hundreds of thousands of people who have joined with us to StandCreative. Join our creative community We Started a Conversation.

Will you lend your voice? To answer the first part is to go back in a time when the protection offered by copyright was first established.

When copyright was established the idea of having a world wide web where digitized versions of protected items could be shared from peer to peer was no where in sight. Now however we have entered into a world dominated by the internet, copyrighted material is not as easy to protect anymore. The digital age made sharing easy, and that only exploded when the idea of peer to peer sharing was established.

Without going into extreme detail, with development of a system that allowed computers to interact with each other and send large chucks of data across thousands of miles, the ability to protect digital data became almost zero. There was no longer a way to know if someone copied a file, or put it on a CD.

Copyrighted material faced a very serious threat [3]. There was an old campaign ad when pirating first came into play that attempted to juxtapose pirating to stealing in the real world. Stealing a song is as bad as stealing a car? Hardly but the idea was simply stealing is stealing. Here is where the debate over piracy truly flourishes. The main reasons consumers do not see a problem with piracy are due to the facts that it is so easy to hop online and download whatever you are looking for, and almost excessively expensive to do otherwise.

Whether its downloading songs from a new artist you discovered or streaming a movie online, it is all but a few clicks away. That coupled with the idea that it seems like such a harmless crime. If I can listen to a song on YouTube, why cant i just download it to listen at my convenience.

Who is going to stop me?