Stop Stealing Movies!
Stop Stealing Movies!
Ruth Vitale, CEO of CreativeFuture, on the costs of piracy.
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On this week’s episode of The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, Sonny talks to the CEO of CreativeFuture, Ruth Vitale, about the costs of piracy. A longtime producer in Hwood, Ruth has seen firsthand the costs of theft on productions big and large, but in an age where stealing a movie or a book or a song is just as easy as popping onto Google and punching in some search terms, how do you convince folks that stealing is, in fact, wrong? And what can the government do to help stop the scourge of Internet-based IP theft? All that and more on this episode of BGTH. If you’ve got any ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments.
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Sonny, jumping off topic to encourage you to take a look at "The Offer," the series about the making of "The Godfather." As far as my wife & I are concerned, critics of the series are waay off base. The series itself is gorgeous, great music, good cast, and beyond that the joy of seeing the work behind the scenes brought to life was pretty intense. I can't recommend the series enough. Give it a chance on Paramount +
What Jochanan said.
I don't pirate. I can afford not to.
But I understand the temptation when rights holders develop byzantine methods you have to navigate in order to consume their content.
One area in particular is the Twitch streamer, or the like, who would be happy to buy a license to play music on their stream. I looked into this once and it is impossible. The rights holders, which is usually not the creative artist, has made it impossible for someone who wants to do the right thing to do it.
I look at piracy as the market signaling that the current system is broken and needs to be fixed.
Can we also stop comparing the theft of digital goods to physical goods? When a physical good is stolen there is less for the seller to sell. This isn't true for digital goods.
One other pet peeve is video game anti-cheat software whose only function seems to be to make the video game experience worse for people who purchased the game legally.