Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales

Re:Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales by billswift on Sunday October 11, 2009 @07:39PM (#875546)

According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_tim... , "May you come to the attention of those in authority" is an escalation of the better known curse "May you live in interesting times". Today it's a depressingly common threat, too.

It looks like RIAA and the other mobsters are going about it wrong, maybe they should be hitting up more people for smaller amounts.

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Re:Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales by jacquesm on Sunday October 11, 2009 @08:01PM (#875584)

The trick of a good parasite is to let the host live and be a small enough nuisance that the host won't kill the parasite.

The RIAA is getting dangerously close to the 'squash' button.

A few more 100K+ verdicts and I'm sure they'll achieve their goals of irrelevance.

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Re:Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales by patio11 on Sunday October 11, 2009 @11:04PM (#875843)

The trick of a good parasite is to let the host live and be a small enough nuisance that the host won't kill the parasite.

That is indeed the pirate's dilemma: how do I steal all my music, movies, and videogames while making sure Content, Inc. doesn't move to a business model where all the value is on their servers and you can, at best, rent access to it. It has already happened in China, and looking at the PC game sales charts in America it is pretty much complete there, too.

Oh, those weren't the parasites you were talking about? My bad.

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Re:Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales by shpxnvz on Sunday October 11, 2009 @08:27PM (#875617)

However, the parasites in the content industry have a symbiotic relationship with the parasites who would do the squashing.

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