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Originally Posted by tompe
There was a link in a thread here to a video of a talk by the author of the book and and his point was exactly that. Piracy like what Hollywood did lead to something that might be good for everybody.
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While I suppose you could argue it was good for the Hollywood producers and the audience, the "star machine" of Hollywood routinely treated the bulk of its actors and actresses like cattle, ground them out and discarded them when done. Writers and technicians were treated even worse. So, again, the moguls got rich, the people got their bread and circuses, and the creators got the shaft.
It wasn't until years later, when the unions won fair treatment for its members, that the system could be said to be "good for everybody," IMO. Pirates didn't accomplish that. Organization did.
Argue what you want about the Pirates... but their ultimate lack of appreciation for the creator and their efforts, and their right to be compensated for those efforts, is just plain sad.