It’s not about piracy, it’s about a failure to adapt

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[Commentary] The threat of rampant piracy — the downloading and re-distribution of what the content industries claim are billions of dollars’ worth of intellectual property — is continually raised to justify ever-more-draconian laws such as the recently proposed SOPA and PIPA bills. While they have been shelved (at least for now), the pressure on legislators to come up with new variations continues, as does the pressure to launch federal cases against service providers like Megaupload or Hotfile. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham argues that this phenomenon isn’t the natural order of things, but stems from the failure of those content industries to adapt to the new realities of the internet. He is right — as long as they continue to resist, the battle will go on.


It’s not about piracy, it’s about a failure to adapt How the content industry has, massively, adapted to the Internet (response from Jeremy Toeman)