"Copyright has created the financial means to create such music specifically for the public's tastes."
Hypothesis there, I don't accept it, and there's little controlled empirical evidence for it.
Piracy is hurting artists is also a baseless assumption that is grounded really strongly in a bunch of reactionary people's minds who can't yet realize that the economic assumptions they had from an earlier time were actually flawed to begin with.
"Losing sales to piracy" is a tenuous hypothesis. Some evidence shows that piracy increases sales more than it reduces them.
At any rate, we have enough music now for everyone to listen to neat things for the rest of all lifetimes on the planet. There's no need to subsidize it anymore with these schemes to criminalize sharing.
Hypothesis there, I don't accept it, and there's little controlled empirical evidence for it.
Piracy is hurting artists is also a baseless assumption that is grounded really strongly in a bunch of reactionary people's minds who can't yet realize that the economic assumptions they had from an earlier time were actually flawed to begin with.
"Losing sales to piracy" is a tenuous hypothesis. Some evidence shows that piracy increases sales more than it reduces them.
At any rate, we have enough music now for everyone to listen to neat things for the rest of all lifetimes on the planet. There's no need to subsidize it anymore with these schemes to criminalize sharing.