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1. Comment - Google: Viacom's Built to Sue

   (Jul 16, 2007 - 12:58 AM)

   Props to your hilarious and straightforward analysis, but an addendum:
   
   Simply put, downloading music, movies, tv shows, video games, pictures, books, essays (and any other form of digital merchandise) that you would normally have to pay for but are getting for free is illegal no matter how many people are doing it.
   No point in pointing out how its been going on since forever or how the internet has accelerated the trend or how maybe content providers have been force feeding terrible programming and how this might just be the payback they get or even how many people buy albums or movies even though they can get it for free since they want the box/appreciate the work...
   ...Because (and I don't think it's terribly irrational to say so) companies like this are creatively bankrupting/stealing money from the industry and until laws are significantly changed and the current patent system redefined (which is no small task) it will keep happening.
   You know something is wrong when a system that was used to protect innovators and encourage creativity among competitors is now being used to do the opposite, IMO the industry is very sick and these people are the cancer of it. Sometimes I naively think to myself 'how do these people sleep at night' then remember 'oh yeah, on a bed of million dollar bills'
   
   In a parallel universe maybe, where our inherent selfish nature is subdued, which encompasses joe blo who hordes a library of pirated material and will never ever pay for something he can get for free. People might embrace the web as a means of distributing content with people paying monetary tribute to the creators with the hope that there might possibly be more. Sure, artists would make much less money off of it but last time I checked Shakespeare didn't live in a multi-million dollar mansion and wash his face with evian.
   
   On the side, does anyone else find it funny that in the past century or so the most biologically insignificant people on the planet (artists) have gone from earning either less than or equal to 'worth' than the average proletariat to earning more than many could ever imagine? I suppose it's indicative of the s*** in priorities we have in our lives, 80 years ago it would likely have been 'how will I feed myself' whereas today one chooses to occupy themselves with when paris will get out of jail or what to think of s*** saying out loud exactly what any rational person could see is true.