Re:The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library
by wes-exp on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:56AM
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Let's speculate:
- People gaming the system to inflate "downloads" or whatever metric is used to determine payouts.
- Politicians pushing their views on others reaches a whole new level when they decide which media should be produced.
- For technology products like software, government has generally proven to be inept in the face of change. So entire industries would be held back due to bureaucratic "management".
- The entire export value would be ruined when products are released at no charge. US GDP declines.
This just sounds like a recipe for waste, cronyism, and job loss.
- People gaming the system to inflate "downloads" or whatever metric is used to determine payouts.
- Politicians pushing their views on others reaches a whole new level when they decide which media should be produced.
- For technology products like software, government has generally proven to be inept in the face of change. So entire industries would be held back due to bureaucratic "management".
- The entire export value would be ruined when products are released at no charge. US GDP declines.
This just sounds like a recipe for waste, cronyism, and job loss.