Comment Basic Economics and the RIAA (Score 1) 393
If only they knew some.
What the rise and rise of P2P ("Pirate to Pirate" as we call them) networks shows is that to many people the risk costs of P2P are less than the cost of "legitimate" media contents.
The recent music CD price reduction is a grudging and very late admission of this salient fact.
Getting legal client/server systems out to the consumers at an even lower risk cost will almost completely eliminate illicit uses of P2P technologies. Because for most people, it just won't be worth it.
What the rise and rise of P2P ("Pirate to Pirate" as we call them) networks shows is that to many people the risk costs of P2P are less than the cost of "legitimate" media contents.
The recent music CD price reduction is a grudging and very late admission of this salient fact.
Getting legal client/server systems out to the consumers at an even lower risk cost will almost completely eliminate illicit uses of P2P technologies. Because for most people, it just won't be worth it.
