“After predicting “dinosaurs” dying during all that time, you recently cheered them for surviving rampant piracy.”

What he predicted is that if they don’t adapt and give people a reason to buy they would die. To some extent they have, eventually, adapted and given people a reason to buy. It is by embracing new technologies that they have adapted and given people a reason to buy.

and I’m not sure where exactly he predicted that they would necessarily die. Just that they will be forced, and were forced, to adapt to technology whether through kicking and screaming or by consent. If anything he has pointed out many times in the past how Hollywood screamed about how every new technology, from the printing press to the cassette player to the VCR, would destroy the industry and that never happened. He pointed out that new Internet technologies, if properly embraced, would also likely not destroy the industry. If they aren’t embraced then the industry would die.

“you recently cheered them for surviving rampant piracy.”

Which was the point he was making all along. If they keep focusing on piracy that takes away from creating a product and a more profitable business model.

“”trying to get people to understand that the fight over copyright isn’t about how artists should get paid” — Right. It’s over whether.”

That’s a strawman. Copy protection laws are not the only possible way artists can get paid. In fact Megaupload provided alternative ways artists can get paid. Hollywood didn’t approve because they want to be the only way.

Also copy protection laws are not, or at least should not be, about whether or not artists should get paid. It should only be about promoting the progress and providing a public good. It should not be about preventing companies, like Megaupload, from engaging in your perverted definition of stealing. This is exactly why I want copy protection laws abolished. To the extent that they exist they should only exist to serve a public interest. To promote the progress. Any other reason is grounds for its abolition. You are the very strongest reason it should be abolished.

“not paying.”

Again, IP law should only be about serving a public interest. Preventing people from ‘not paying’ should only be seen as a means to an end. When you see it as an end in and of itself I see that as a reason to abolish IP laws. Everything should enter into the public domain in a reasonable period of time because that should be seen as the intended end.

“Hasn’t Dotcom screwed over creators? “

Again, preventing creators from being ‘screwed’ is not why IP laws should exist. In fact that you have perverted it to such is a good reason why they should be abolished. No one is entitled to IP laws, they are a gift of government, and like any other laws should only exist to serve a public interest.

“Don’t say “pirates buy more than others”, because those “studies” are lies in first place, unverifiable. What’s fact as even Masnick was forced to admit is:”

Yes, only studies you agree with you are verifiable.

No study has 100 percent uncertainty. That’s the nature of science. But the studies do provide evidence for a specific stance.

From that link

“but it’s worth noting that IDEA itself was created last year with funds provided by the MPAA. ®”

Even if sales went up after Megaupload was taken down that’s not to say correlation equals causation. Much of the reason could very well be that content providers have learned to adapt to newer technologies by giving people more and better legal alternatives. For example Netflix has been growing in the last few years. There are many more legal on demand options.

It should also be noted that even if Megaupload’s takedown was the cause of Hollywood’s revenue that’s not to say piracy through Megaupload harmed their revenue. It could very well be the case that Megaupload provided content creators and consumers with more legal ways of distributing and obtaining content. This could have competed with Hollywood. Also Megaupload did provide ways for content creators to get paid for their work and that could very well have helped supply more content that competed with Hollywood. Which is exactly why Hollywood and you don’t like Megaupload despite the fact that they mostly complied with the law and, in many instances, went above and beyond what the law requires. Because they provide competition and Hollywood doesn’t want to compete because that competition cuts into their revenue.

Your hatred for mostly legal services like Megaupload and Google/Youtube, which do/did follow the laws, is evidence of your true agenda. You don’t just want to stop piracy. You want to stop competition.