Philosophical Quandry: Piracy

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PvK:
For example, MegaMedia Corp can announce a subscription for full access to all the media it "owns", for a yearly fee of only say, $20. If they can control access and make it cheap and convenient to distribute to Subscribers, then probably practically everyone interested will Subscribe.

That's better than the current system, because people get much more content for less, and they don't have to worry about purchasing each title. Copying may be controlled simply by the low price - if it's so cheap and easy to get everything legitimately, then would-be "thieves" won't bother, or will be controlled by peer pressure. "You stole it? You didn't just Subscribe? It's only $20 and I did it - what a lamer!"

Now this I think is a great idea. As long as it's voluntary. Instead of the coporation though the artists/authors could band together like the guilds of old. This gives them access to enough capital to market their production, but they aren't forced into the contracts that are such a problem.

Just don't make it a government thing that you have to join and have no alternatives to and I would hapily support it.

Geoschmo