[boody]

Originally Posted by crufty

at this point, we are back on page 2.

what boody is saying is that copyright enforcement laws will not result in more money for musicians nor a reduction in piracy.

It will, however, result in culling of the stupid from the rest of the herd, improving the efficiency of pirates.

If piracy is really the culprit of sales, and thats a big if, track the impact of napster, which was as ******** a piracy app there ever was, vs the impact of bit torrent, which is pretty damn sophisticated technology. They say insanity is doing the same thing each time and expecting different results.

Each iteration of copyright enforcement only improved the efficiency of the pirating community, as enforcement does not address the need to pirate nor smoke weed. The idea that money is a driving factor shows me that we may not all truly understand what motivates piracy. I don't think piracy is driven by economics. Metallica could release all their albums for free on their website as mp3s, and I would not be surprised to see that lots of folks would still pirate those identical, free mp3s off whatever dark corner of the net they thrive.

Exactly on point, great post

Now: what can we do?