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Comment by jesbickhart | Hacker News Reader

All for disrupting Hollywood, but pirating (or file-sharing however you want to phrase it) is NOT how we are going to accomplish this.

The ripest piece of disruption is distribution platforms and working with studios to find a safe way to release a picture not going around them illegally.

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Hollywood isn't going to work with you to disrupt anything.

Actually they have every intention of doing just that. Look at the decline in movie ticket sales year by year over the last 4. Emerging distribution platforms like Netflix and Hulu get lots of attention from production companies because they aren't afraid to shake it up and provide an alternative to the studio giants that don't develop small movies anymore.

On the contrary, piracy is exactly how we are going to accomplish this.

You make it sound like this is the only opportunity for disruption yet fail to bring a point to the table to back up this claim. Piracy is a violation of copyrighted content plain and simple. It is illegal. We will find another way.

Laws change.

Thesis; Antithesis; Synthesis. That's how it always works.

Does anyone really think it would be possible today to buy a DRM-free song for under a buck from multiple sources, if not for the competition represented by Napster and its successors?

I'm sure you said the exact same thing about music piracy until iTunes came along...

This is exactly what I am talking about haha. Nabster was the precursor to iTunes. iTunes disrupted everything legally.

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