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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4777129" data-attributes="member: 2732">What lessons?&nbsp; I'm not a big fan of people saying the various industries should not worry about privacy.&nbsp; Honestly, the people who say that in my mind are akin to a Mafia boss saying &quot;you better co-operate and pay protection or we will ruin you&quot;--except replace protection racketeering with IP piracy.&nbsp; How dare anybody decide to actually protect themselves from pirates, or decide to abandon a certain business model that is frought with violations of the No Electronic Theft Act (and other rules).&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />Part of the problem too is that in the latter half of the decade, with all the alternatives to news, people don't like listening to anything outside their &quot;comfort zone&quot;.&nbsp; So, instead of people listening objectively and trying to understand the other guy, people now try to shoot the messenger.&nbsp;&nbsp; Say the wrong message, and you are part of the &quot;liberal media&quot;, the &quot;media conglomerates&quot;, etc.&nbsp; It's okay to have health skepticism, but be wary of your own biases and keep yourselves open to the other approaches.&nbsp; I notice that the people who don't want to see piracy stopped love to quote the stories about it &quot;increasing consumption&quot;, but when other facts dispute this, they dismiss the surveys as biased.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 4777129, member: 2732"] What lessons? I'm not a big fan of people saying the various industries should not worry about privacy. Honestly, the people who say that in my mind are akin to a Mafia boss saying "you better co-operate and pay protection or we will ruin you"--except replace protection racketeering with IP piracy. How dare anybody decide to actually protect themselves from pirates, or decide to abandon a certain business model that is frought with violations of the No Electronic Theft Act (and other rules). :uhoh: Part of the problem too is that in the latter half of the decade, with all the alternatives to news, people don't like listening to anything outside their "comfort zone". So, instead of people listening objectively and trying to understand the other guy, people now try to shoot the messenger. Say the wrong message, and you are part of the "liberal media", the "media conglomerates", etc. It's okay to have health skepticism, but be wary of your own biases and keep yourselves open to the other approaches. I notice that the people who don't want to see piracy stopped love to quote the stories about it "increasing consumption", but when other facts dispute this, they dismiss the surveys as biased. [/QUOTE]

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