I read an interesting article today about HBO's Game of Thrones--everyone's favorite piracy topic.
In it, a rep from HBO says they don't send out the "Game of Thrones" police against casual torrenters. He even seems resigned to piracy and not too disturbed about it. The article mentions that they focus on people who are actually selling pirated copies, which of course is one of the main theses of this blog.
I don't know how honest they are being, but it's encouraging that they think this is the proper attitude to have publicly.
They also have a quote from one of the creators of the show waxing poetic on what he could do if people could even purchase a copy of a show for a buck, which I personally consider reasonable (if still a bit steep), presuming I can just download the damn thing and play it where I want. They point out there is no way to do this, and so HBO is just giving up that money.
I'd be more confident about sanity starting to prevail if it wasn't for ACTA and other trade agreements which may undermine any chance for sane laws on copyright.
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