Dear Pirates
April 15th, 2012 at 9:00 am by David Farrar
Got e-mailed this, which is sort of funny.
And no I do not condone “theft” when the victim is rich. In fact I have always said that people should pay for copyrighted material when that avenue is open to them.
But there is a useful point that the current business models are very much geared towards the studios, and making their owners rich. It is the studios, rather than the artists, which are resisting moving to business models that are fit for today.
Luckily we are slowly moving towards studios using the Internet as a sales channel, rather than as the enemy.
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April 15th, 2012 at 9:20 am
The industry always highlights the artists as being the injured party by piracy. In reality it not at all difficult to find details about how the recording and movie industries use very questionable accounting among other things to ensure that they get the absolute most they can at the expense of the people who create the products they’re selling.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 9:31 am
It is disingenuous to run a campaign highlighting the rich who lose from pirating. There are many many more struggling producers and copyright holders who also lose. Entertainment is a precarious business for most practitioners, and pirating makes it even tougher to survive. I am also tired of the hate campaign being waged not only by the left here, but also in the UK, US, against wealthy successful people. They are generally wealthy because they produce something that people want and have been happy to pay for.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 9:50 am
Bud Sellig, Commissioner MLB……
How do you pirate or downlaod a baseball game?
More disingenous lefty crap.
Vote:G
April 15th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Perhaps you two should also tell us about the artists who are shafted along the way.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 10:26 am
DPF you’ve gone pretty quiet on Kim Dotcom lately… There’s quite a bit that’s happened since your last post suggesting he maybe needed money to travel.
[DPF: The NZ court decisions to date seem fairly sensible so have not blogged on them.]
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 10:28 am
On a related matter I note that the Pirate Party has started winning seats in German State Elections while the FDP (and less so the left) is losing them.
It is possible that the Pirate Party will be the 4th party in the next German election (behind CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens)
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 10:39 am
Grant, the rights to live broadcast of sports events are protected IP just as much as the latest Lady Gaga song. There have been court cases about news segments showing highlights clips. The Sporting body claimed this violated their IP while the news broadcaster claimed it was fair use.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 10:52 am
The bottom left photo is of Stan Lee the creator of many a comic book hero. Issac Pearlmutter is the current ceo of the marvel group and im guessing looks very different.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 11:40 am
There’s nothing wrong with being rich, but these people have made money by exerting influence over the government to make and enforce laws in favour of themselves.
The left-wing are some of those who have made copyright so unreasonably prolonged with ridiculous penalties. Think of Clare Curran and her three strikes bill for downloading MP3s.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 11:43 am
What makes me mad is when you have a legal DVD you are often subjected to copious advertising plus tirades against piracy, equating it to hard crime and saying it’s financing god knows what evil. It’s enough to make me want to pirate the bloody movie.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 11:51 am
how about the same email done with middle class stock holders of news corp, disney, marvel, universal etc
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Grant said:
Bud Sellig, Commissioner MLB……
How do you pirate or downlaod a baseball game?
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Uh – you stream it for free over the Internet rather than buying a subscription from a pay-TV provider.
I cancelled my Sky subscription years ago. All of the European sports coverage that I am interested in can accessed via free Internet streaming services.
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 12:45 pm
torro said:
I am also tired of the hate campaign being waged not only by the left here, but also in the UK, US, against wealthy successful people. They are generally wealthy because they produce something that people want and have been happy to pay for.
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The hate campaign is not against the wealthy and successful.
It is levied against those who have established fortunes through lobbying and corporate welfarism i.e. the sort of behaviour that has lead to things like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Clare Curran’s bill? It was introduced in 2009 by the National Government and passed in 2011, albeit with Labour’s support. You aren’t confusing this bill with the earlier one introduced by Judith Tizard when Labour were still in power, are you?
Vote:April 15th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Is that Stan Lee’s real name?
Vote:If so, I now understand why he goes by Stan Lee!
April 16th, 2012 at 8:17 am
NO, Stan Lee (creator of Marvel) is not Ike Perlmutter, who succeeded him as CEO of Marvel. EPIC FAIL on the photos.
Vote:April 16th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Stan – the Man-Lee would think this is really funny. I love his cameos in the Marvel movies. My step daughter met him last year, at a competition to be a super hero (she went as something ironic) and he was very generous and good humoured.
Vote:April 16th, 2012 at 8:32 am
Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter is an American businessman and financier. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Marvel Entertainment since January 1, 2005. He is 66, while Stan lee is 90 (born 1922).
Vote:April 16th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
And no I do not condone “theft” when the victim is rich. In fact I have always said that people should pay for copyrighted material when that avenue is open to them.
So it’s ok to steal from a poor victim is it?
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