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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would respectfully submit that they are two very different acts, and that giving someone a copy of a digital item is what has conventionally been described as "piracy".
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Gosh, and I, as a non native English speaker I always thought that piracy is the act of
taking something from someone
Leaving the joke apart, yes,
unauthorised copy is what apparently is commonly named piracy.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
One of the problems is that some copyright holders who are trying to come up with new and innovative ways to increase their cash flow will label anything that might not match their business model as piracy. Thus, Disney's CEO claims that not watching commercials is stealing from Disney and some copy right holders claim you need to buy a separate copy for each and every device that you use.
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Actually, the movie business (and the music, too, for preceding historically the movies) is different. Listening to music meant (before the invention of "music conserves") to go each time to the summer garden and listen to the singer, and pay for the consumption (maybe a tip in the open hat) EACH time. Wanted to see a movie, you paid EACH time a ticket. That business model came back as VOD or PPV (video-on-demand, pay-per-view).
In other words, the consumers got a freedom the studios, as initial promoters!!!, like now to have it reverted back. In your case, Disney sold the Mickey Mouse in all possible forms, from theatre-tickets to Bluray and Ultraviolet, not counting the other things, like T-shirts, etc. They also lobbied the Congress to prolong the ancillary rights duration.
But audio and video industry is quite different from the book, although both sides are important as the content is concerned not the medium. One doesn't buy the round policarbonate disc with a hole in the middle as such, but for the music/movie it stores. One does not buy a book for the paper to start a fire or for the toilet (there have been case for both, but it's not the mainstream
) but for reading it. Once listened/viewed/read, these items loose a part of their appeal, modern movies are watched only once (they are wonderful
), modern music would also be listened once (and never again, but the FM radio keep sending them in ether per contracts they have), and a book is stored in the garage. Sometimes, they may be read/listened/watched again, but from the next generation.