chances are you yourself own a multitude of products and treat yourself to a multitude of services you don't really need and the money you used to procure them could just as easily have gone to someone without food, a home, clean water, or medical care.

double edged swords are sharp aren't they?

theater box office accounts for less than 18% of the film industry revenue. so your plan is for them to just willingly give away the vast majority of their business?

Artists & Film makers have no excuse for not getting money, they can do live gigs/cinema.

Stop trying to get an easy buck.

which amounts to exactly "jack" and "shit" if it doesn't keep a roof over my head and food on my table.

"The Pirate Bay does not earn profits for themselves."
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you don't have any proof of this. the reason you have no proof of this is because the pirate bay refuse to make their finances transparent. and the only reason anyone has for not making their finances transparent is because they have something to hide.

…none of which matters since the reality, whichever end of the spectrum it may reside, will soon be revealed during the trial.

"A right is a right only when it does not interfere with other rights, "
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therein lies the dilemma. your supposed "right" to distribute my hard work on a massive, unlimited scale with complete strangers and without the smallest trifle of compensation for your greedy consumption most definitely infringes upon my rights as a creator. bit of an impasse there.

lolololololol

This to be created subsidiary of OfCom is a joke, it'll be a new amalgamation of the IFPI/MPAA/RIAA/FAST, where the good ol' government will squeeze more money out of us to fund feck knows what.

these are good points, succinctly put and i thank you for making them. you immediately stand out from the rest of the hormonal teens around here…

while i agree that the record and film industries shortchange their respective content creators, my point is i don't see the pirate community offering anything better. 7-14 cents an album does add up after a while. i know better than anyone here how the studios (in particular) do not care about their content creators. my particular profession though integral to the creation of a movie is grossly underpaid in relation to other above the line talent such as actors, producers and directors. however, again, i do not see the pirate community offering anything better. at least the studios (or labels) pay SOMETHING, meager though it may be, it is better than nothing.

The "problem" these days is that record labels are simply becoming unneeded.. Quite a few artists are more than capable of recording their own music, and if they can't it's not all that expensive to rent out a recording studio (though some big labels might have you think otherwise).

When you say "content creator's work" you're ignoring that they don't get much at all. The worst case scenario is that the artist becomes more popular and they can charge more for bigger live shows. I haven't heard of a single case where the money from a lawsuit against someone who shared music was given to the original author(s).

btw, as I said to roze, I've changed the name on all your comments to match each other, under your usual nick of 'freetard' – it makes it easier to track who says what.

I'll edit in your name to all your comments, just so we know who they're from.