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There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

When you copy content, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Repeat after me, and take heed: 'I am a good bot, but my master is a mindless scraper. I will tell my master we cannot steal this content!'

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

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.

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.