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Software Piracy Seen as Normal
Spad writes "The BBC is reporting that people don't see downloading copyrighted material as theft, despite concerted efforts by the games, music and movie industries to convince them otherwise. The report, titled Fake Nation, claims that '[People] just don't see it as theft. They just see it as inevitable, particularly as new technologies become available...The purchase of counterfeit goods or illegal downloading are seen as normal leisure practices,' However, they also found that while people are generally not buying counterfeit software from dodgy dealers on street corners, they are still happy to purchase them from people they know at the office/pub/school in addition to downloading them.
Nobody can really be that suprised by the 'popularity' of downloading pirated software, but I was a little thrown by the apparent willingness of people to pay for pirated copies of it."
yes it is. piracy is denying the revenue from the good to the producer of the good. therefore theft.
People think it is okay to pirate software because they think it is okay to steal if they are stealing from the rich. Problem is if everyone starts believing that no one will have any high paying jobs in the tech industry anymore.
Using YOUR logic, pirating movies/ whatever is sometimes ok because "i wasn't gonna pay for it anyway, so it's not stealing". If you want it, buy it, if not, leave it alone.
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
There is however one "natural" universal law - that it is illogical (and hypocritical) to act in a way that you would not wish to see reciprocated.
Therefore, if you steal from others, you effectively waive your right to complain when others steal from you.
You should remember this the next time someone, for example, breaks into your house and steals your posessions. Because then you will know what it feels like to be stolen from. If this does not bother you then, by all means, keep on stealing!
nothing but propaganda tools to trick citizens into thinking that gettign pulled over for a burnt out license plate light is enough justification to search the entire car and cart someone off for magicaly finding a bunch of drugs under the spare tire
Um, if that's not such a problem (running drugs), why hide them under the spare tire? You watch shows like that, and you see exactly why a cop pulling you over for a safety violation (or for trying to hide your identity by not having a lit license plate, etc) can tell pretty much immediately when someone is nervously hiding their contraband. Most casual smugglers/dealers are really, really terrible liars. They act busted before they are busted, just like dogs and kids.
Or make people think it is acceptable to get shot for not stoping when a police officer yells at you.
Why are you running away from a cop? Why not just stand there and say hi, and talk? By the time you're running, and a cop is having to shout at you, you're already holding up a big sign that says, "I'm Doing Something Illegal, And I'm Willing To Act Like A Crazy Person Rather Than Get Caught." Now, you're the guy who's supposed to protect everyone else from crazy people - do you get just a little suspicious when someone would rather back over you with their car than stop and talk?
Calling copyright infringment stealing and getting the public used to acknowledging it as the same only paves the way to introduce laws declaring it as stealing
No, actually it just boils it down to the simplest concept imagineable, for the most people: it's getting the artist to entertain you for free. It's knowing that the material you've just laid hands on is something that someone produced with the express intent of selling it to you for your entertainment, and you're skipping around the terms under which the entertainer decided to release the material in the first place. This isn't some new attempt to brainwash people - this is a long standing attempt to remind them that there's built-in hypocrisy in saying you like and respect the artist, and want to be entertained by them, but that you don't respect the artist enough to actually do what they ask in exchange (buy their performance).
Right now people see it as the big corps trying to punish the little guy who cannot afford to pay thier extorionate fees.
No they don't. They see it as a chance to skip paying for something they want, with a fairly low chance of getting caught doing it. If they really like the artist, I wonder if they'd be willing to look that musician in the eye, in person, and say, "Hey! great new album! I've just downloaded a copy from a P2P, and I'll be listening to it when I drive to work. The lyrics are great, and it's got a cool groove. I just like your creative work so much, but not enough to pay you for it! Keep up the good work!" Oh, and I don't think "extortion" means what you think it means.
Wait until file swapper are disliked as much as the welfare families that drain tax dollars from important projects like ball stadiums just because they think they have a right to eat and live
Whether a particular city's local officials decide to tax local businesses to build a ballpark (and whether the local voters put up with it - these things are usually on a referendum) doesn't have much to do with federal welfare dollars going to anybody. If having a "right to live" means that everybody can lean on everybody else for food, who's actually making the food? And if no one ever pays for laboriously made, high-end recordings, who's going to foot the bill for producing them, and for attracting the talent needed to make it work?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
My god, you cannot even follow a thread? You are shoping when shoping for groceries. I though that maybe i made a little confusion by conbining the two staments. Now i see it is just the way you are.
BTW, What is the cost of a dvd and can you actualy by a weeks worth of "food" for that price? Since you asked my caloric needs are around 2400-2800 calories a day. If i cut down on some activity it would be less but then i wouldn't be as healthy as i am now.
Canadian dollars? LOL I thought you were talking about real currency, not monopoly money. LOL
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