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Subject: Re: Piracy

Author:
LrdDimwit

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Date Posted: 13:43:54 06/11/03 Wed
In reply to: Adrian 's message, "Piracy" on 13:20:04 06/11/03 Wed

*snip*

>The music industry is currently learning that
>personally attacking millions of pirates is a doomed
>approach. You can't shut down all file sharing
>networks. You can't IM every single pirate and expect
>it to stop.
>
>There are three ways to stop piracy, all of them
>mostly social solutions:
>
>1) Offer the product legally for a reasonable price in
>a wide distribution that anyone can reach.
>2) Offer premiums, such as superior quality sound, DVD
>bonus features, etc. that pirates cannot offer.
>Pirated products are often of poor quality.
>3) Develop brand name loyalty. Socially convince
>consumers that your company deserves to be paid for
>delivering good products.

*snip*

>Neither Jake nor anyone is ever going to stop
>fansubbing or piracy by individually attacking every
>pirate. It just won't work. It's only going to make
>everyone angry at each other, for an unestablished
>belief that fansubbing costs sales rather than
>stimulates sales.
>
>Unfortunately, there are people in this country who
>have weak ethics or weak morals. You can't change
>them as people overnight. Morality and ethics usually
>need to be instilled from an early age. It's hard to
>take a 20-year-old who has no sense of right and wrong
>and suddenly make him/her moral.
>
>The social solutions are as outlined above.
>Currently, licensing and better distribution is
>leading to Solution #1. We really don't see all that
>much in terms of DVD bonus features in anime yet, but
>that could pick up in the future. Since anime fans are
>generally a loyal bunch, Solution #3 is having an
>effect as well.
>
>It's better to work on legal
>availability/distribution, premium features, and brand
>name loyalty.

This is very true...the only real way to stop piracy is this:

Piracy is NOT free. People's time is valuable to them. People's bandwidth isn't in unlimited supply. Once you make it easy and painless enough for people to get legitimate versions, the piracy options become unattractively 'expensive', not in terms of money but in terms of the inconvenience.

This is why fansubs sprang up in the first place. You can be far more effective at combating piracy this way than you can with the big stick approach.

Now I have to jump on a call. See ya later.

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Subject	Author	Date
Final word on tapes/CDs	Jake	09:52:31 06/12/03 Thu