Xandurpein wrote...
Show me in what way the gaming/movie/music industry becomes better at producing artistic creations by piracy. Show me how strict DRM have prevented artists from being influenced by other.
Piracy shows there's a lack of respect, pure and simple. That lack of respect is because developers or production houses don't have a good relationship with their customers. Most pirates, as I've said ad nausium, are willing to spend money on products if they feel it's worth it. I've downloaded a lot of music, when I find a bunch of songs I like from an artist I DO go out and buy the album as I feel they deserve support. Same with games/movies. Piracy forces innovation in an attempt to grab attention and favor.
Also I didn't mean DRM causes stagnation (DRM just shows a lack of trust towards the consumer), it's copyright laws. In gaming it's the engines themselves. You have to pay a ton of money to use UE3 or CryENGINE 3 or Source engine etc etc. If the use of those engines was reasonably priced we would see a lot more innovation in the gaming industry. Most crap games use their own crap engine where 70% of their time and energy went because they couldn't afford one of the larger engines, making the game itself suffer because of time constraints.
The reason why people defend piracy is because technology has made it so easy to steal and get way with it. The moral treshhold is so low, because it's just one little click away. When it's so easy and virtually no risk of being detected it's too hard to resist, and then you start rationalizing it.
Wrong, your moral high horse is amazing. Most things that are pirated are things that like I said are either not going to be bought in the first place, are ripped for testing purposes or someone feels they have already spent enough money on that company. Any games I've ever downloaded were games I was never gonna buy anyway, so the dev never lost money. Testing purpose example is my friend who ripped Tracktion 3 because he loves to mash up music but he didn't know if the program was worth it, he used it for a while, saw it was what he needed and then bought the full version for the support that went with it. For the final example, a guy I know from college bought an early version of photoshop at 650 bucks. Since then he's ripped each version that came out simply because he feels that 650 dollars is enough cash to cover many many versions of photoshop rather than one. Upgrades cost something like 250 for a bunch of new minimal features, not worth the money in his opinion but he wants to stay up to date.
The whole crap about how it's those "already filthy rich" to complain is b*****t, as the same argument can be made to defend stealing anything else too.It all comes down to the fact that no one will make big production games like those Bioware does, if they don't get paid. They won't get paid if noone pays. So whoever steals the game is just expecting someone else to pay for it. Cars, hamburgers, t-shirts, they all are sold by big companies where big executives make a lot more money than you do, so then it's all right to steal from them? He has more money than I do, so it's OK for me to steal from him? "I think that only those who are richer than me should ever need to pay for a something." Don't you even see how egoistic that line of reason is?
I never said that people have a right to steal from the rich, what I was saying is that when the rich throw their wealth in your face, wealth that has been acquired by fan money, and then bit*h about pirates stealing from them and treat their fans like thieves it pisses people off. The problem is they're rich because of consumer money and yet they don't trust those same consumers that made them rich. Also, if they're making crappy products than it's their problem that nobody is willing to spend their own hard earned cash on their creations. Piracy is a reflection of how the community and the society as a whole feels about the products being released and the people that release them. Like with the NIN and Radiohead examples, they understand that you need to have the support of the fans in order to garner a wage. Entertainment is about just that, entertainment, and when artists feel that it's their god given right to be paid no matter the circumstance or treatment of the community they're losing rationality and can't see that entertainment requires respect from the consumer to be profitable. None of us need movies or music or games so you have to be willing to innovate and spend the time grooming a relationship with the community, period.
Treating a whole community as 'weasly thieves' is the only way to make people wake up and realize what it is they are doing. It's not enough to just use technical defences, people need to realize the morality of stealing someone else work too. Just as the police cannot sto robbing stores with guns alone, the community needs to agree that just taking money from the store is wrong or there wouldn't be a store. And a community that doesn't pay isn't much of a fan base for those who need to get paid for their work either.
And the bolded is why the entire entertainment industry is failing and why piracy is sky rocketing. As I said, we don't need any of this stuff, it's not food or water or shelter, it's there for fun. The more they treat us all like thieves the less and less we care about giving them money. When the only communication a company has with it's consumer base is the monthly banning of pirate accounts and a release of information on new DRM features being implemented along with a statement that amounts to wagging a finger at it's community then people start losing any feeling of appreciation with said company.
The biggest problem with all of this is that the industry feels that everyone should follow their way of thinking when in fact it's the opposite. If you don't embrace and follow the trends of the society then your shooting yourself in the foot. They
need our money, we
don't need their products. When they act like the society is at fault and that they're the shining knights on white horses you create an atmosphere of contempt, especially when they're already rich, when they stomp out, buy out and squelch beginning level development and when they have an overall distasteful attitude toward the people that get them their paycheck. The industry needs to change, the society doesn't...
Also one last thought. Most people arn't rich, we don't have unlimited cash. The amount of media in relation to 30 years ago is astronomical yet the amount of cash available for spending on said media is about the same if not less than 30 years ago accounting for inflation. The more media spreads out, the more the cash spreads out so it's no wonder that the industry on a per company bases is doing worse. Money is thinning out as the landscape becomes larger. I don't think file sharing pirates are saving a bunch of money therefor becoming rich. The majority of P2P users don't have the cash to spend on vast amounts of media anyway. The industry is just blinding themselves to how the world works at the moment and is making it worse on themselves as they raise prices and push harsher DRM on all of us in an attempt to recoup losses. Go with the flow, not against it.
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