Disclaimer: I made some passive money selling software and I've been damaged by piracy (so much that I had to stop selling).
I was lucky enough to be my own publisher, though.
I still think that piracy should be legal, while breaking a contract and redistributing should be punished. This shouldn't happen automatically (like the copyright infringement letters in Germany) or handled by taxes (like the hard disk tax in some European countries), it needs to be handled in court, as a breach of contract.
The fact that this is not the default and that your government/ISP is selling your data so easily, really points out how this is just lobbying from the media corporations and the umpteenth case of corruption of the government.
What if justice is too slow? Complain about your inefficient public courts and push for a private, faster system.
If you look at this from a wider perspective, people able to make money passively work once and gains for months or years to come.
It depends on the type of good you're producing - but it can be wildly profitable or put you on a diet.
Given you're profiting from selling one thing to many, it should be your problem enforcing and/or suing people sharing your work.
You have one-to-many benefits, you get one-to-many costs.
Will piracy kill some content and push the market in a different direction?
Most likely, but that's what people want.
You can see it in software with SaaS, in movies with Netflix, in music with Spotify.
I know it sucks to be in the spot of penniless painters, but it's how society evolved.
You need to evolve yourself.
I still think that piracy should be legal, while breaking a contract and redistributing should be punished. This shouldn't happen automatically (like the copyright infringement letters in Germany) or handled by taxes (like the hard disk tax in some European countries), it needs to be handled in court, as a breach of contract. The fact that this is not the default and that your government/ISP is selling your data so easily, really points out how this is just lobbying from the media corporations and the umpteenth case of corruption of the government.
What if justice is too slow? Complain about your inefficient public courts and push for a private, faster system.
If you look at this from a wider perspective, people able to make money passively work once and gains for months or years to come. It depends on the type of good you're producing - but it can be wildly profitable or put you on a diet.
Given you're profiting from selling one thing to many, it should be your problem enforcing and/or suing people sharing your work. You have one-to-many benefits, you get one-to-many costs.
Will piracy kill some content and push the market in a different direction? Most likely, but that's what people want. You can see it in software with SaaS, in movies with Netflix, in music with Spotify.
I know it sucks to be in the spot of penniless painters, but it's how society evolved. You need to evolve yourself.