2 People Are Speaking Their Mind

1. kristen miller Says:

   February 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am

   As a content producer, I’m offended at your support of file sharing of copyrighted material. The volume of people committing the illegal act of stealing does not justify the crime! It may seem like a ‘loosing battle’ to you who benefit, however your acts only serve to undermine the quality, professional efforts and sacrifice that go in to making those products you so eagerly steal.

   People work VERY HARD and get paid surprisingly little to create the films and music you steal. You behave disrespectfully to the artist, the creative talent, and all the other people that sacrifice so much to be part of an extremely competitive and unrewarding business.

   Stealing is wrong - how sad it is that you feel it is justified because ‘everyone’ is doing it.

2. Chris Tew Says:

   February 7th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

   I don’t think Dave justified it because everyone is doing it, he simply said everyone is doing it and they don’t feel it is wrong.

   I completely disagree that the entertainment industry is an unrewarding business - its a massive multi billion dollar business. Someone is getting the rewards. If it is not the content producers themselves then that has little to do with file sharing. I believe its part an oversupply of talent making it competitive because people love being involved in the industry it drives compensation for everyone down, and secondly to do with larger corporation having a monopoly control over distribution and being able to filter a large part of the profit due to their monopoly. This has nothing to do with file sharing.

   The point of this article is that file sharing is a distribution mechanism that people want. The rights holders are preventing it to keep their profits high, but subsequently causing an explosion in piracy.

   As stated many times here on WebTVWire we believe the future of the industry lies in rights holders embracing new technology and looking into new monetization mechanisms rather than fighting a loosing battle. This will increase the spread of information and entertainment, improve user experience and allow content producers to have their content reach more and more people in a legal way which they are compensated from.

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