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I'm surprised it took this long. by: General Lee D. Mented on 4/2/2009
I was talking about it a couple years ago. People have an innate desire for "cultural synchronization". Basically when you see something neat/cool/funny/interesting you want to show all your friends. It's related to the sense of humor and the underlying forces that led to the development of language but that's a long discussion for a comment. Basically fighting that is like pissing against the tide, so companies would do better to embrace it.



How? They should have linked something like iTunes to facebook or twitter with the deal that anything you buy, your mutual friends can listen to/watch too, free. "But won't that mean there will be one bot that auto-refriends 10,000 people so they can pirate everything?" Yes, but those people weren't going to give you money anyway. The money comes from the people who discover new artists/styles/shows through their friends and then buy it so <i>their</i> friends can hear about it too, or the groups where friends distribute the cost of say an entire TV series by buying episodes round-robin to share amongst themselves instead of passing it up as too expensive individually.



But of course, the fear of the piracy-bot will blind them to the potential here, so people will wind up just using The Pirate Bay, which will then cause the powers that be to scream "See! We were right about piracy all along!" ignoring the fact that this is just simple supply and demand and that if they'd supply at least something with the acceptance of less than perfect efficiency they'd get more out of it than supplying nothing.
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