Sunday, January 22, 2012

And you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad...

Read all about it here. If you want it stopped, go to "Home" and sign. I have.

Ugh. I'm TIRED of legislation trying to stop piracy by violating privacy. Seriously, a friend of mine gave me an interesting insight on how stop pirates--Companies need to out-perform them.

An example, you buy a TV show on DvD. One of the episodes is broken and unwatchable. You got to piratebay and get an illegal copy, and then that copy works perfectly with no flaws.

See the issue? People would probably not pirate if the companies would legitimately out-perform the pirates. Either that, or take the Steam path. Or whatever. Companies are too greedy.

Edit: Also, I know a bunch of signatures may not work and we'll need another Blackout, but you never know.

2 Written Scrolls:

Balgram said...

I used to have that stand point, but it turns out there are a lot of pirates who are still stealing outright.

It's depressing. I wish for a world where I can go and buy a movie and I download it and it is on my machine and it is MINE, and I can give it away or sell it and be rid of it or whatever, but it's MINE and I don't need a special player, don't need to stream it, I just own it.

It's gotta happen someday. They are going down fighting but they will LOSE and I will WIN and the entirety of human creativity (ie movies) will fit in the palm of my freaking hand before I'm 40.


Yaaaay

Aegis Runestone said...

I hope so. But, even so, this legislation isn't right.