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The media industry and most artists are clueless about what the internet era customer wants. But then again, most of the people who speak against the media industry are equally clueless about how the industry works and where the money comes from. This is a challenge for the artists and the industry: EDUCATE PEOPLE.

What has pissed me off royally lately is the amount of ignorance and “knowledge” in every damn discussion about piracy lately – and on both sides of the fence. I have made my living mostly from copyright fees and in TV and media for about a decade. In spite of that I’ve been very very critical about the current copyright systems, the mostly inefficient fight against piracy with block lists and ruining school kids’ lives with multimillion euro fines, and generally how outfits like MPAA, RIAA and their local counterparts function. Internet has been a game changer and the media industry dropped the ball in a pretty epic way.

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