I spend a lot of time reading Engadget, BGR, Yahoo News, etc. In every dialogue I watch on SOPA, DMCA, piracy, etc... and now reading commenter dialogue on Tribler news stories... I see content creator "greed" cited as one of the main catalysts for piracy.
Something along the lines of "Man, fuck MPAA, RIAA, and Hollywood... fuck those people who want to charge me $10 to see a movie. Fuck those assholes that wanna charge me $8 on iTunes. They make millions. They're just being greedy... so I'm totally gonna seed a torrent on PirateBay..."
So, in the name of
preventing piracy, I would like to avoid
becoming "greedy".
I don't want to offend anyone with my profits, clearly. That would be absolutely
terrible.
So at what point does good old capitalism become "greed"? I think we need to figure this out.
I believe I have stumbled upon the secret to stopping piracy.