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Originally Posted by DamianJ
A % of something is better than 100% of fuck all, as they say.
And of course, people will always steal music no matter what they do, they have PROVEN that suing people only increases piracy, so what to do?
Getting some money out of them is astounding when you think about it.
Just wondered if there is something to take away from it for our industry.
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I suppose there is something you can take away from it from this industry, but I don't really know what it is. Could you offer someone the option of trading in their lower quality videos for HD if they bought a membership to your site? Likely not because chances are unless your HD videos are protected they are already out there and the downloaders have them.
The problem is that our is not a self policing industry. Here is an example. If one day Warner Bros. announced that from that day forward every DVD they released would be sold for $3.99 for movies that have been out over 6months and $5.99 for new releases the rest of the movie industry would come unglued. There would likely be lawsuits and if that didn't work you might see some studios refusing to work with anyone who worked with Warner Bros. They would react harshly at them trying to undercut the market by that amount.
In porn if one company price the movies at $3.99 and $5.99 instead of collectively trying to stop them, another company would just sell theirs at $2.99 and $4.99. It wouldn't be long before one company was just giving them away and they were just putting some watermark ads in the movies to try to get traffic to their site.
So to me any solution that we might come up with that could be similar to the apple match idea would just be undermined and someone would figure out a way to give more to the pirates than they initially stole in hopes of getting more traffic.
But then again, maybe I am over-thinking it.