Another Thought On Piracy
Originally posted February 2012--
The powers that be always be looking for their lost revenue in the pockets of the music/movie fan… and our pockets be empty.
Maybe if they checked the pockets of the people who we all are paying $50-$200 a month (and more) to access the internet at home and on our phones, they might find where all that 'music/movie money' of the past is going to now. By the time we pay for life's necessities (like rent and food), if we have any money left over for spending on entertainment, of course we're going to pay the $50-$200 a month for unlimited access to all forms of entertainment (albeit, not always legal access) instead of 1 DVD, 2 movie tickets and a couple CDs.
Internet providers know what we can access on the web, so they charge us at a rate that is more or less equal to what might have been our 'pocket money' of the past, and we end up paying them to access content that they do not create. Not only do they get all of that money (and the content creators get none of it)… but we have hardly any money left over to directly support the content creators creating the things that we like, as we've already been tapped dry to have the access to find out about the content in the first place.
Piracy is happening because everybody is broke and we’re never going to fix anything if we keep shaking the wrong people upside down and hoping money can keep falling out of empty pockets.
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