Lets Sue!

I am writing this because of my continuing frustration although it may be misguided in many ways i need to get this out before i starting getting more annoyed.

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I am look through torrent sites today and notice because i haven’t been on for a long time that the MPAA has decided to sue a few sites now i do remember reading this on My Google Reader a while ago but i skipped over it because i didn’t think it effected me. How wrong was I!

So i am not really bothered about what they have said and what it falls down to exactly we already know its to do with greed not copyright or the protection of the artist because it would be the artist that would be suing if that was the case.

Lets break it down as i see it:

• MPAA, RIAA and any other organisation founded with similiar philosphys are shit scared of change
• these organisations will resist change at all cost
• These organisations care not for there consumer only themselves

So i suppose i should justify my argument so i will in away. Ask your self the following questions:

• Why do people download music and media in general? – convience
• Why do people despise DRM? – it limits what you can do with the media you legally own
• Why is DRM always broken? – because people want freedom
• Would you want to rip the artist off? – no, the artist should benefit from there work

So based on that it is quite an hypocritical argument, you want the convience of downloading media but dont want the DRM and the artist to also benefit, now look at the middle man preventing some comprimise to be reached – yes thats the one MPAA and the RIAA – fair enough they have a purpose but also that purpose is to protect the artists interests so that should include suing every illegal sharing website or system without hestiation, if that were the case why is there a new site that pops up when one goes down or a new protocol after one is banned. The RIAAs and MPAAs job is therefore reach some middle ground. i wouldn’t object to paying a monthly fee to the organisations to use any site i wanted however it then falls down to pricing they will no doubt want to charge more thatn it would be to actually purchase the DVD or music in the first place.

 So what then, get rid of em and create a new agile group of organisation that can handle it in a better manner. The media inustries were too late to catch on and are too late to play catch up, instead of spending time and money suing the consumer they actually need to sit down with them and find what they want not what they think the consumer wants. I want to support the artists as much as the next man and i don’t like ripping them off, but if companies charge ludicrous amounts for a CD, DVD or a piece of software the consumer will naturally find better and cheaper ways to do so, even if it takes them that little bit longer to get it.

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