this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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We can distribute digital media for almost nothing, yet the way most people and companies make money of digital media is by creating incentives to not consume it. Taking part of digital media has a value and artificially creating barriers to doing this means destroying enormous amounts of value.
This is clearly a very bad system and piracy is a useful strategy for creating the possibility of something better long term and to keep companies from putting up too large barriers short term. The only reason why we have the convenience of e.g. spotify is because of piracy, without pirates we would likely have something more expensive and less accessible instead.
This is true.
Piracy exists as a functional alternative to corporate distribution. We are it's competitors and they should be required to innovate around making content easy to access.
When Digital Content is impractical to access; it is over-engineered and it deserves to rot on the vine