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Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ... by learc83 on Friday December 02, 2011 @02:53PM (#3305407)
You can argue the morality of it all you like, but practically, piracy (or free distribution) isn't going anywhere. It's too easy to copy digital goods. The entire internet is built on copying. Everything you use is copied several times just to get it to you.

You're not going to stop it, so if you are an artist or author you should try to find new ways to make money. Crowd-sourcing is one way. Hell I'd pay several hundred dollars to George R. R. Martin to get him to hurry up on his next book.

Edit: Accidentally wrote Robert Jordan instead of George R. R. Martin

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Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ... by nooneelse on Friday December 02, 2011 @06:19PM (#3306198)
> "Hell I'd pay several hundred dollars to George R. R. Martin to get him to hurry up on his next book."

Put me down for a wad of cash too, maybe not that much though.

But you/we don't need to appeal to a hypothetical on these things, the crew of SMBC Theater got 5 times the capital they asked for from their fans using Kickstarter to produce a movie.

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Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ... by henrikschroder on Friday December 02, 2011 @03:45PM (#3305592)
Robert Jordan is dead, so I'm not so sure what you expect to happen through that donation...
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Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ... by learc83 on Friday December 02, 2011 @03:51PM (#3305620)
Oops.. Not sure why I typed that, I was thinking of George R. R. Martin. Thanks for pointing that out.
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