Online “piracy” isn’t looting. It’s capitalism. It forces dinosaurs to evolve or become extinct. The music and movie industries are in denial, mistaking progress for criminal activity. In fact, they’ve already benefited from piracy’s kick in the ass. Music piracy sites such as Napster forced an antiquated model to reinvent itself, and today we have solutions such as iTunes at a dollar per song and Spotify’s monthly subscription rate. These new systems didn’t kill the music industry; they saved it.
The Illusion of Freedom: How Wealth and Oligarchy Captured America
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Writes Bill Madden: What we are experiencing is the logical conclusion of
an economic cycle where a relatively few super-rich families own and
control ev...
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