others have pointed out the problem of global availability vs. artificial rights barriers.
i'd like to add one more thing, in regards of music:
why should i pay for digital music reproduction?
1., radio is free
2., internet radio covers so much, i can listen to anything, for free (more channels than ever)
3., on demand is solved by youtube, which is already the biggest music platform bar none. some music video have 100+ million playcounts!
4., a lot of those youtube videos are legal by now, put up there by the industry themselves. they price their own content as ZERO.
and then there are the specialty sites, like soundcloud, 8tracks, wearehunted,... all that music, on demand, for free. mainstream stuff, not some basement bands.
the industry is pricing their content as free in a lot of channels already. so, sorry, hard to see that saving a youtube vid as an mp3 is actual piracy.
i'd like to add one more thing, in regards of music:
why should i pay for digital music reproduction?
1., radio is free
2., internet radio covers so much, i can listen to anything, for free (more channels than ever)
3., on demand is solved by youtube, which is already the biggest music platform bar none. some music video have 100+ million playcounts!
4., a lot of those youtube videos are legal by now, put up there by the industry themselves. they price their own content as ZERO.
and then there are the specialty sites, like soundcloud, 8tracks, wearehunted,... all that music, on demand, for free. mainstream stuff, not some basement bands.
the industry is pricing their content as free in a lot of channels already. so, sorry, hard to see that saving a youtube vid as an mp3 is actual piracy.