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Piracy equals demand without supply: TV boss
Paying for information is “a dying behemoth,” says Alice Taylor, commissioning editor for education at Britain’s Channel 4 TV. “‘ ‘Piracy’ – as done by teenagers, all my friends, pretty much everyone I know, is simply demand where appropriate supply does not exist,” she says on Scotland’s new Perspectives website, going on: “Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies — in other words, anti-copying, anti-fair use — are also anti-accessibility. They attempt to block and restrict, and they fail every time.
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For years now we have heard the loud voices of those representing the movie, music and TV industries as they call for tougher and tougher legislation in order to force people to consume media, their way. These entities really believe that the file-sharing genie can be somehow squeezed back into the bottle by the use of overwhelming force. The battle lines have been drawn but make no mistake, these tactics will not win this war – the Internet and empowerment of the individual has put an end to all that.
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