Educating Youngsters About Piracy

Colin Winters writes: "The New York Times has an article that is a follow-up to the recent raid by the government on pirates in universities. Some professors believe that "By the time we get them, they already believe it [piracy]'s right." An interesting read. There's also an interesting bit on how business software is now 1/3 pirated, down from 1/2 in 1995. In America, it's only 24%. From the way companies like Microsoft whine about piracy, I'd assumed the figures were increasing, not decreasing."

Comments

What is right is not the issue.

[HanzoSan]

The LAW is not about whats right. The Law is about the economy and what we know works.

We know capitalism works. We know businesses make alot of money by selling what is essentially free.

However, this is all about the economy, and rich CEOs making billions of dollars off of us. It doesnt really help the people, it helps just a few rich CEOs have a few more million dollars.

So the question is, what is more important? Would the economy survive if it changed? Absolutely. Would CEOs be as rich as they are today? Definately not.

So CEOs dont want to make more average wages, they want to be billionares, and this is only possible if you sell overpriced software for $500.

Its not like developers get paid billions, no, some CEOs and guys in suits do.

Same with the RIAA, So its not about right or wrong, its a matter of, should we be getting this money? or should some rich guys in suits be getting this money?

Developers and Musicians wont be getting this money either way.