War between people and peoples.
Confrontation is not productive. It never was. But nowadays it is popular again. You see it in stupid commercial TV productions, at work and between producer and customer. I bought last week the Sonic Seducer magazine. There I found two pages dedicated to artists. They commented the actual trend to copy CDs instead to buy them. Some of them were not too bad but like Joachim Witt showed us radical opinions were as well part of their thoughts.
When I was young and I saw my first computer (a Commodore C64) most of the games were pirated. It was getting better with the Commodore Amiga. But as well games and software was not only bought. A big part of it was copied. The game producers had I tough time and they earned not too much. But the interesting thing is, that a lot of the guys are still in business. They were not stopping to be game programmers and doing the dishes in big hotels. Instead they built up an industry which is nowadays as powerful as the movies.
The technology was evolving itself. Industry brought us the CD which was said to be resistant against scratches (definitive a lie) and better sounding (still vinyl is in business because not everybody is believing this). The CD was sold 5 Euros over the price of a LP. In the beginning industry made the high production costs responsible for this but like taxes the prices were only going up. No problem for me. I have the money. But is this the case for everybody? That were the ordinary people thinking when they see the top stars flying in their own planes because they can afford it? In any case the time after the introduction of the CD are golden for producers and artists. But they forgot two things. First of all the decadent behaviours of some very successful artists gave the ordinary people the impression that not paying music is okay, because there must be enough money. The life style of for example Michael Jackson seemed to gave them right. The second thing was the evolution of technology. The CD was something final in their heads. There would be nothing after it. But like so often time proofed them wrong. Now they have to fight something new. And they try it again like in good old Amiga times. There a software studio published a really great game with the comment, that it will be the last, if the community is not willing to pay for it. It was the last game from this studio for the Amiga ... but it was not the last computer game.
This war fought with laws, copyrights and artificial restrictions was lost a long time ago. There must be new beginnings, new ideas, new concepts. The artists must evolve themselves. If this evolution is not successful the branch will extinct. This is nature in their most brutal form. This is capitalism!