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The Future of Copyright
In the Digital Age, companies can no longer expect to realistically enforce copyright laws over things like Music and Movies.
Everyone I know downloads movies and songs ad its got to the point where its become a part of normality rather than anything illegal.
Songs, at least the music industry has tapped into the download market with iTunes and such, even if they're making much less money than they used to. I don't care - the money they used to make was ridiculous, perhaps music artists will make music because they love making music, rather than for the money. The music industry is now at what I deem a comfortable point between capitalism and communism. The people have the power, the industry responds to us, we're not forced to pay stupid prices for music if we don't want to.
Films, this is a harder issue but again, the concept of "If you can't beat them, join them" comes into play again. They should put the films online on a similar program to iTunes where people can download the movie for a lower price. Yes, again, they'll make far less money but unless they embrace their future, they'll make no money whatsoever as people download them illegally for free. Perhaps putting adverts into the downloadable movies may work too.
The point I'm making is that the industry will only suffer the more they fight it, they need to respond to our wants, not expect us to respond to theirs, thats how it works and there's no changing that.
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Posts: 116
I buy real copies of films, but to be honest I begrudge the fact that I might wait to buy a film, and meanwhile before its even come out there are people downloading it to watch.
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People will still buy real copies of the movie no matter how widespread downloadingn is.
So if they release a movie, lets say their salaries are cut from today's standards by 80%, that is still a heck of a lot of money by anyones standards to make in a year. Like I said in my Bonus Tax page, nobody can truly earn millions and millions.
Even if downloading becomes the standard rather than the exception, the hard sales, merchendise and other things will still make them a lot of money.
It will mean that Hollywood or whatever will be much more critical of movies that come out to ensure they're profitable. Actors will only work because thats what they've wanted to do, act, and not for the money.
Music, again, I'll bet there isn't a single musician who started playing or singing because they wanted to be rich off it, they probably did it because they loved to play music and wanted to share it with people. Again, musicians get most of their money from touring as it is.
I think if we ignore the issue of how producers can capitalise on downloads for a second, it will improve the quality of everyone in the industry if they're not allowed to be so ridiculous with the money they're throwing around.
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Without an effective return on their investment its unlikely the big companies will continue publishing music or films.
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Basically, other avenues need to be taken by the industry to capitalise as much as possible on an uncontrollable force.
Post Edited: 6th Apr 2009 (6:10pm)
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If they respond to these wants, they'll kill their own industry. Yes the industry needs a new model, but those who steal content need to stop justifying themselves by saying 'everyone else does it' or 'copyright is dead/immoral'.
Copyright is not immoral, it protects the creators of a product. If I make a car, I don't expect someone to steal that car from me and get away with it. If I make a book, a song, a film, why should I have any less right to have my ownership of it, the work I've put into it, protected than someone who makes a physical product?
For the record I legally download music published under the creative commons license, other than that I don't download anything. Films I get through Blockbuster, or buy, books I buy as a point of principle, and I buy games.