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Originally Posted by HansTWN
It is good that the customers are pushing back --- the problem is when customers are pushing back by going to the darknet. Giving the companies the perfect excuse to try to push such or similar legislation. And that is exactly why they spend such insane amounts on lawyers and lobbyists. All that money could get back to us customers, if there was a general consensus to respect copyright (violated only by people on the very fringe, who don't really matter since they would never be customers, anyway).
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The lack of respect for copyright comes in direct proportion to the lack of respect the entertainment industry pays to the audience and talent alike. The strategy of middlemen narrowing the options of both producers and consumers of content--gatekeeping and stifling innovation on both ends--is not new to the digital age; it's just harder to maintain. When the "straight world" better reflects the realities of technology, supply and demand--and thereby better serves the culture--the black market will lose its raison d'être.