Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder

Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-leads-to-less-crap-says-bittorrent-co-founder-081109/

Ashwin Navin, former president and co-founder of BitTorrent Inc. had a few points to make after he recently quit the company after 4 years. Ashwin is pretty upset about the strict copyright restrictions. In the article he makes many valid points on how we should embrace our freedoms not restrict them. He put emphasis on how the customer doesn’t have to be controlled by the entertainment industry. The customer now has the ability to access their material at will, which ultimately results in less money for them. Like we’ve heard before, Ashwin thinks the industry is scared because they don’t know how to make money off of the internet like they do on DVD’s. One of Ashwin’s claims was a very new way of looking at free access to the entertainment industry. He said, “The free flow of information and entertainment over the Internet doesn’t diminish the relevance of high value, professional entertainment at all. It does force the publishers to be more quality conscious (make fewer flops, and more hits).” I had never thought of this before, but it is true. I have defiantly done my fair share of piracy. I have downloaded plenty of horrible movies I would’ve wasted my money on, and been really upset. It’s a very good way of sampling how good certain movies are, or how good new music artists are. When I like something I generally buy it.

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Ryan Wettlaufer