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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."
If the cost of downloading that software/music is zero, then why would I pay more than that?
Your post is a self-justification for your refusal to follow the law. Yes, people don't like being ripped off, but no one is forcing them to buy the music or software.
The same goes for the "I'll try it and buy it if I like it" and "I can't afford it, so the company isn't losing any money anyway" crowds.
I don't know when this attitude of entitlement started becoming so prevalent. It seems to have reached a fever pitch in the past couple years.
It's not a small, spikey mammal either (unless you're pirating Sonic the Hedgehog games), what's your point?
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
It doesn't have to make ence to happen. Even right now women are wearing skimpy cloathing while showing thier "baby fat" as it is supposed to be attractive to the younger crowd.
That fact that i actualy saw the term "showing your baby fat" in some teen magazine at the doctors office in an article that basucaly told young girls how to become sluts is disturbing enough.
After reading this and the parent posts, I do see the tendency comming around. Somethign else i find alarming, parents are dressing thier kids in more revealing outfits and proping them up like teenage sex idols at younger ages now. We went from not showing the knees in the fifties to leaving verry little imagination today. I saw a 10-12 year girl with here nipples pierced the other day and her momma was braging about it to a neibor. ''If you look around, you see some of the same. Parents might think it is cute (or are doing it to suplant the fact they would never look as good in the same outfits). IT plays right along with this thread though.
I can't help adding that Lord MacAulay practically wrote the Indian legal system himself
Wow! Add that to his long list of accomplishments:
1)Home Alone
2)Home Alone 2
3)Music Video
4)Hung out with Michael Jackson
5)Got his face all over the place when he got engaged at 17