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UK Campaign for Digital Rights debunks the digital piracy mythUK Campaign for Digital Rights debunks the digital piracy mythPosted Mar 10, 2003 8:59 UTC (Mon) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)Parent article: UK Campaign for Digital Rights debunks the digital piracy myth Good article. However it ignores what I think is another important reason for falling CD sales: just about everyone who was going to buy CDs to replace old vinyl records has now done so, so that market is dead, or at least dying fast. I do wonder about "debunking the myth" _again_. We consumers were convinced long ago, and don't need yet another article of this type. Meanwhile the record companies are absolutely determined not to believe the truth - their colours are nailed to the mast and their captain is on the bridge, standing smartly to attention, whilst the waters rush into their sinking ship. Serves them right.
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UK Campaign for Digital Rights debunks the digital piracy myth Posted Mar 13, 2003 11:33 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link] It also ignores another very real issue: People who are being demonized and treated as thieves by the music bussiness are not very likely to be positive to the same bussiness.I don't know about you, but personally I have a lot of negative feelings towards the music bussiness. Enough so that I choose to spend my entertainment-cash elsewhere. Enough so that I currently consider it ethically questionable to give money to the immoral cartel of big music companies. I prefer that my money are not used to figth to diminish my fair-use rigths, the "first sale" rigths and my rigth to listen to music I own how and where I want. Music is entertainment. Personally, I'm not much entertained any more.
We must keep debunking because they keep lying Posted Mar 14, 2003 6:16 UTC (Fri) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] I do wonder about "debunking the myth" _again_. We consumers were convinced long ago, and don't need yet another article of this type. Meanwhile the record companies are absolutely determined not to believe the truth This is exactly why the myth of "piracy" needs to be debunked, over and over again -- the media companies keep selling the myth over and over. They will never stop selling it until it (and perhaps they) are completely defeated, so we will ever have to expose its falsehood. The culture hoarders have incredible resources to devote to the unrelenting struggle against the future; they have the megawatt bullhorns, and can employ as many people as they like to shouting the piracy myth through those bullhorns twenty-four seven. Against that, we must do more than debunk the myth once; we must do it a ridiculous amount of times, to a ridiculous amount of people. You, as an individual, have been convinced the myth is bogus and that you are not a "pirate" for sharing valuable culture with your neighbour. It is not my experience that any significant proportion of the public feel the same way; most *believe* they are committing some kind of offense against the media giants, and that it *is* wrong to do so. That they do it anyway is done with a large degree of guilt, and it is *that* which we must fight; while the media giants are seen to be right, the public will not righteously oppose them.
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