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Mr. Valenti, who will soon leave his decades-long post as president of the Motion Picture Association, insists, "The only way to kill piracy in Russia is strong copyright law with stern penalties and government resolve to enforce that law".
Yes, it's true that nothing will ever kill piracy.
But booming digital sales hammered pricing as online music outlets aggressively slashed prices in an effort to kill piracy.
The point I was making then was that it was impossible to kill piracy by hunting it down site by site, and piracy was always going to be present to some extent, so ignoring that reality was pointless.
Five years ago, I wrote one of my most-read pieces ever called "You Will Never Kill Piracy, And Piracy Will Never Kill You". That was at the conclusion of the SOPA/PIPA debates when net neutrality was in jeopardy under the guise of wanting to "kill" piracy, and The Pirate Bay was being raided and shut down every other day, before going back up a short while later in a new place with new servers.
I think the media industries would love to kill piracy with a quick piece of legislation that blacks out every torrent site on the internet, but I don't think they want to fight it so much that they'll change their entire distribution model on a dime, which would actually go a long way toward truly competing with piracy.
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This is not only a threat to traditional packaged sales of music, TV and film, it will also kill off piracy.
The following quotes come from Reddit user solidwhetstone in his post "How Hollywood could kill movie piracy (if they wanted to)." First the industries need to "give us a [media] application like Steam (similar to iTunes but for PC games) that lets us buy movies for cheap".
At the same time, online companies would be crazy to let piracy kill off the commerce that supplies quality material upon which even free sites like Wikipedia depend.
In a world where we're being constantly told that piracy will kill sales and that authors, musicians and the rest will have to rely on live gigs – these bookings become even more critical.
Piracy kills kittens, you know.
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