Re:Save, Create and Run Your Own Pirate Bay
by quintis on Sunday December 28, 2014 @02:02PM
(#8807007)
> Distributing ripped off copies of easily available
With crappy services, regional lockouts, DRM, and other horrors, this is actually rarely the case. Especially if you're not the small percentage of customers in the States.
> expensive to produce
That's not the customer's problem to care about. That's the industry's problem to solve.
> copyrighted works, largely made in the last 5 years
Why should it matter that a work was created in the last 5 years?
> that the purchase of would help feed the creators.
You'll find that very often the creators don't actually make squat. The gatekeepers who enforce terrible services, DRM, lose customer data to hackers, and assault customers with lawsuits absorb most of the cash.
With crappy services, regional lockouts, DRM, and other horrors, this is actually rarely the case. Especially if you're not the small percentage of customers in the States.
> expensive to produce
That's not the customer's problem to care about. That's the industry's problem to solve.
> copyrighted works, largely made in the last 5 years
Why should it matter that a work was created in the last 5 years?
> that the purchase of would help feed the creators.
You'll find that very often the creators don't actually make squat. The gatekeepers who enforce terrible services, DRM, lose customer data to hackers, and assault customers with lawsuits absorb most of the cash.