5 ways to stop/slow music piracy
Regardless of what the music industry says, music piracy is still alive and still very strong. The general way of thinking in a big music company is that if you get enough press about winning lawsuits against pirates it will slow things down. This, as everyone knows, is absolutely stupid and is just what you would expect from an executive. The truth is, most of the people who are sued don’t have the cash to pay the judgement, so the lawsuit costs more than the amount earned from the judgement. On top of that, they sometimes get the wrong people because of all the bot-nets out there.
The lawsuits have been coming fast and furious, but what has happened to music piracy? Nothing! Napster is gone now, but there are tons of other networks now. Recently the owners of The Pirate Bay were found guilty and were sentenced to 1 year and 1 million in damages, however nothing changed in the piracy world. In fact, there are other versions of the same website hosted elsewhere. You can see how stupid this approach is right? (more…)
