Kazaa: Happy In the Global Legal Briarpatch

Steve0987 writes "The Washington Post has an article on the entertainment industry's atempts to close down the file-sharing system Kazaa. I agree that copyrighted material shouldn't be freely distributed from an ethical standpoint. However, the entertainment industry has been acting in an arbitrary manner trying to impede anything remotely impinging on their industry. Go Kazaa."

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Piracy and the Common Good

[HanzoSan]

When you decide on something, when you decide if its right or wrong, do you look at how something benifits you?

Well you can say Piracy benifits you because you save money and get free times, OK.

You can also say
Piracy benifits the majority of the people on this planet who also cannot afford to buy $500 software and $20 CDs.

So, what it comes down to is, Piracy is good because the majority of the people on this planet benifit from Piracy more than we benifit from not being pirates.

So Piracy is good because it benifits the common man. Intellectual property benifits maybe %1 of the worlds population if that, 99 percent of people in the USA do not own intellectual propery, most musicians dont have record deals, they dont make money off of their art.

Most people in other countries do not have the money to buy patented medications, most people on this planet simply do not have or own any information.

Why should we, the common man and owners of all information which man produces, give ownership to a select few when we can all own it?

Think about it, how do YOU benifit by giving Sony the right to own music? How do YOU benifit?
You dont benifit at all by doing this, so why do it?

Because its right? Its more right to share than it is to own.