Thoughts on piracy.

[WickyWoo]

Digitally speaking...

I think people should be able to choose how much they want to pay for 'art'.

Music, movies and the like are intellectual property. They are not 'real' in the sense they are made of matter. A BD disc is; however, so a small 'minimum cost' to cover the hard goods involved in bringing it to market is fine; however, 'art' should always be judged based on what someone is willing to pay for it.

I understand this is a complicated thing to consider. But, it has worked great for shareware software and recently for music.

In fact, there was a band recently that released their album on iTunes only asking people to pay them what they felt the music was worth. It's the way it should be, in my opinion.

And you can do that with a dedicated and loyal fanbase

For most people, you're lucky if they fork over a red cent. You cannot compete with free.

People keep forgetting that 90% of what you're paying for goes toward the cost of producing the content, not the cost of the medium it's on.