Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.
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Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.
Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.
I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.
When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.
One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.
The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money.
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