Pirate Bay Trial
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moth: basically, this problem is going to be raised again and again over the next ten / twenty years.
We've had a society which values things based on scarcity (ie. supply and demand - if a resource is scarce you have you pay more for it). This obviously doesn't work with digital things -> simply because they can be copied at little to no cost.
So, we go through a period when the old economics is copied and applied to digital goods -> but this can't be sustained.
Traditionally corporations use Intellectual Property as a kind of cash-cow. It's this that I find corrupt, because they're exploit us (as consumers) as well as the people who produce the work. Once the distribution costs are reduced down to near zero, I think the whole process seems even more corrupt.
My view might seem extreme to you, but I don't think it's totally ridiculous.