These guys really do creep out of some strange places.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-podcast-bbc-080319/The BBC has published a podcast which takes a look at piracy through the ages, also covering the modern concept of ‘intellectual property’. Of course, no story of piracy would be complete without discussing The Pirate Bay so Peter Sunde also plays a significant part in this 20 minute program.
“They don’t want to sell MP3s because they feel they don’t have the control they used to have, so they don’t understand that they are losing out on money because they are not following how the industry is changing.”
But it’s the ‘reproduction pirates’ - file-sharers - that are taking over the ship now. They’re everywhere says the BBC, and they’re multiplying.
Tarleton Gillespie, assistant professor at the Department of Communication, Cornell University explains:
“The generation that scares the music industry more is the next one, the one that’s coming up now because they’ve never known anything different. There’s always been peer to peer [for them], there’s always been very easy ways to get on whichever service you want and the music is there. So the question of how to get it…it’s not backroom dealing or someone setting up a table on the street corner, it is always there, so the music industry is struggling because they have to figure out how to convince that generation to think of anything other than “this is the easiest and most free way to get my music.”
The Cartels have been scare-mongering for more draconian penalties for years and despite the imminent death of the CD they have taken little in the way of real effort to make a reasonably priced product something a consumer will obtain without resorting to P2P networks, instead they have been hell bent on applying yet more and more digital locks and technological hurdles to those who forked out for what was on offer, are they truly suprised their short sighted policy has gone full circle ?
When they declared war on file-sharers they made war on their customers, they are now reaping the benefits of their stupidity.
