Hollywood's Victory Over The Pirate Bay Will Be Short-Lived
Found on PC World on Saturday, 18 April 2009
Hollywood may have won a battle, but the war against piracy is far from over. Unauthorized file-sharing will continue (and likely intensify), if not through The Pirate Bay, then through dozens of other near-identical swashbuckling Web sites.
The bad news for copyright-holders is there is obviously a market demand for this type of content distribution model.
The victory is pretty much pointless because it was a political decision and probably involved a lot of heavy lobbying behind the scenes by the industry. Nothing will change; in fact, P2P will get only stronger. The lame stories told by the industry are nothing but wrong. They said radio will kill the recording industry. They said VHS/Betamax will kill the movie industry. They said TVs will kill theatres. They said filesharing will stop with the victory against Napster. They said you cannot make money from free filesharing. Nothing of that was true. Just look at open-source: you can have it for free, but lots of companies make lots of money from it. Knowing that, nobody can be blamed for believing that the entertainment industry is nothing but a bunch of greedy liars.