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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
It's a direct reaction to the tactics of the music majors.
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In reality, it is mostly the content providers, who insist that this is a zero-sum game.
They are the ones, who count every illegal download as a lost sale, and they are the ones who claim, that without draconian measures like this treaty, all artists will stop creating, and civilization will collapse.
The simple fact is, that as long as the content providers insist on pricing a DRM-ed download, valid for one viewing, at prices five times higher than what Blockbuster charges for the same rental, people who don't have a Blockbuster, will be tempted to "pirate."
And, if the music industry achieves its goal of forcing per song prices upward of $2, for compressed files, iTunes and the likes will realize less sales, and "piracy" will increase.
And the same goes for DRM-ed, barely formatted $15 ebooks.
None of which justifies the dramatically increased intrusion into our use of the internet, by private entities or the government, which is proposed in this secretly negotiated treaty.