the great scourge of the information age. I’ve tried many times to express why I feel piracy is so important, and I think I may have hit a nerve:

Piracy, right now, is important because it makes it difficult to make money in media. and that’s important. because by making it harder to cut a living in multimedia, it forcefully weeds out the entities that have no interest the medium as art, but as a source of income.

think of it like a human body in the grips of a fever: it is forcefully making it’s own body uninhabitable so it can drive out malicious agents.

that’s essentially my personal take on priacy and how it should be seen as a natural reaction to the *LACK* of a competitive marketplace since the 1970’s.

and it’s my opinion that this is only really at a start and has a lot farther to go and a lot more damage to do before things even begin to solidify.