This is not copyright being self defeating. This is copyright working as intended. If the persons who own the rights to something don't want to sell it, why do you think random third parties should suddenly be entitled to sell it instead and keep the money?
Sure it's frustrating as a consumer sometimes, and the copyright expiration periods are way too long now in the us. But how is the concept itself flawed, except to self-rationalize theft/piracy?
My latest irritation on this front is the movie Strange Days. One of my old favorites, and my partner has never seen it. The police violence narrative is powerful. Angela Bassett's performance is fire. Juliette Lewis's musical performances are great. It's not available for purchase on bluray in the US, and it's not on any streaming services in the US. Press speculation reports James Cameron owns the rights, and wants to personally oversee the remaster instead of trusting it to others. And he's not got around to that yet. Are you arguing my desire to watch the movie should override James Cameron, the producer and copyright holder's decisions on when or how to sell their artwork?
> But how is the concept itself flawed, except to self-rationalize theft/piracy?
People want to buy content and yet they can't due to this bullshit. It's that simple. Nobody cares who gets paid or not, they want the thing and the copyright industry is failing to deliver. Guess who's not failing? Pirates.
You have it backwards. "Piracy" is actually the natural order of things, it doesn't need any rationalization. It's the copyright system that's self-rationalizing. Artificial scarcity is an illusion, data is infinitely abundant. It's how computers actually work and also how they should work, there is no need to justify it. It's the copyright industry that keeps ruining it for us with their eternal campaign against computer freedom just to protect their irrelevant business model.
> Are you arguing my desire to watch the movie should override James Cameron, the producer and copyright holder's decisions on when or how to sell their artwork?
Absolutely it should. That work was released almost 20 years ago now. By all reasonable expectations it should already be part of the public domain. What the creator wants doesn't matter, he's already made his fortune off of it and it's time for him to move on to new creations instead of milking past successes forever.
The owner of the license cares about it.
This is not copyright being self defeating. This is copyright working as intended. If the persons who own the rights to something don't want to sell it, why do you think random third parties should suddenly be entitled to sell it instead and keep the money?
Sure it's frustrating as a consumer sometimes, and the copyright expiration periods are way too long now in the us. But how is the concept itself flawed, except to self-rationalize theft/piracy?
My latest irritation on this front is the movie Strange Days. One of my old favorites, and my partner has never seen it. The police violence narrative is powerful. Angela Bassett's performance is fire. Juliette Lewis's musical performances are great. It's not available for purchase on bluray in the US, and it's not on any streaming services in the US. Press speculation reports James Cameron owns the rights, and wants to personally oversee the remaster instead of trusting it to others. And he's not got around to that yet. Are you arguing my desire to watch the movie should override James Cameron, the producer and copyright holder's decisions on when or how to sell their artwork?