On copyright ‘piracy’
Posted on September 29th, 2007 | by Billifer | copyright, intellectual property, MPAA, piracy, RIAALet’s be realistic. There’s a huge difference between piracy and copying for personal, non-commercial use. As consumers, we have allowed organizations such as the RIAA, the MPAA, and their dirty bedfellows to taint our notion of morality by spinning language against us.
It’s how their mountebankery work.
They keep calling grandmothers, college students, and 10-year-old kids pirates and eventually we start to think of them as such, too. In reality, the only pirates are the ones who mass-produce bootleg copies of media, trying to pass it off as the genuine article, with no one but themselves making a profit—least of all the artists who deserve the lion’s share.
The greedy bastards may like to equate a private citizen who is otherwise upstanding and respects the laws and morals of the land with large organized crime rings that exist merely to profit from others’ works. But I believe, and most people believe, that there is a difference. As for the organized crime rings—I guess the MPAA and the RIAA don’t like having competition. ⌘
