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From AfterDawn:

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said the entertainment industry is “shooting themselves in the foot, or maybe worse than the foot” by trying to push anti-piracy legislation.

Brin said the recently killed PIPA and SOPA legislation would have led to the U.S. becoming more like Iran and China, who censor their people.

Even more importantly, Brin hit the nail on the head in regards to piracy, saying the industry cannot understand the simple concept that users will continue to download unauthorized content as long as it remains easier to acquire than authorized material.

“I haven’t tried it for many years but when you go on a pirate website, you choose what you like, it downloads to the device of your choice and it will just work – and then when you have to jump through all these hoops (to buy legitimate content), the walls created are disincentives for people to buy,” says Brin.”

More of Brin’s comments in the article.

(Via AfterDawn.com.)

1 COMMENT

  1. I often buy digital files, and then download the torrent. It’s fairly easy to send a publisher/studio money, just hard to get the file where you want it compared to a torrent. This way may be illegal, but I feel it’s not immoral.

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