Comment Re:The Pirate Bay (Score 1) 302
Profits are what drive capitalism (i.e., a return on capital, by definition). Competition rewards improvements.
Capitalism is a system, not an individual entity. There is no net "profit" over the system as a whole, we just move money around.
Profits can drive an individual corporation to reduce their production costs but it only works if there are reasonably modest profit margins.
If a corporation has a big fat profit margin then they are better of increasing their volume rather than reudcing unit costs.
There are so many labels these days, so many alternative forms of distribution, that the RIAA is crying.
Doesnt matter how many distribution methods there are, their members control copyrights and they have the exclusive rights to decide how each work is distributed.