They start with a single stolen file and pump out bootleg games and movies by the millions. Inside the pirate networks that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
This is how Wired.com's
latest essay on the Internet piracy aka "warez" scene begins.
So it seems that there is a with all that said in the article, there really is a piracy problem. There are people who copy CDs, software, and DVDs and sell them by the millions. They even scan books and sell them or give them away as bootlegged e-books (as many of you here probably know...).
And then there are the p2p systems like Napster and BitTorrent letting people share their music libraries and e-books with many thousands of others.
Most of the time no money is involved. Yet the industry is horrified and asks law enforcement to throw every Internet pirate from young to old in jail.
My question: Why is the industry constantly fighting to protect a status quo that technology "threatens" instead of taking a step forward and making use of this new technology?