Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing

Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by lordnacho on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:27PM (#20811461)

But doesn't one mode of creation exclude the other? How many patrons will pay to have something made in the current world, knowing they could just recoup their money? I think you could even argue that patrons would care more, because who wants to be the guy who creates crap? Versus the current "if they think it's good enough, I guess everyone's happy" attitude.

It seems to me that content will get created regardless. Whether it's better is as you say a matter of taste, but both worlds have existed.

You can't be serious that Avengers is on par with the epics.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by falcolas on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:38PM (#20811601)

IMO, the epics are epics because of when they were written, not because of the content. Avengers: Endgame moved me to tears by killing off a character I had grown to love. The Odyssey? No tears. No attachment to the characters. Less entertainment.

> How many patrons will pay to have something made in the current world, knowing they could just recoup their money?

How could they recoup their money, if there's no exclusivity? There's nothing to sell.

> It seems to me that content will get created regardless.

I guess ultimately, there is absolutely nothing stopping people in today's from creating the best content they possibly could, except for having to cover their cost of living. Today's IP protections allow them to cover their cost of living by creating content. A lack of IP protections means that creation will always be a second or lower priority to a vast majority of creators (those not sponsored by a patron)

To me, that means that a world that lets them create as a method of covering their cost of living is a better world for those creators.

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