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AP Looks at Piracy, Misses the Point
TechDirt is reporting that the Associated Press has covered several stories recently about what a "huge threat" piracy is in other countries. This article, however, argues that they have perhaps missed out on the whole story by ignoring the other side of the coin. From the article: "the AP doesn't bother to mention how all that piracy helped created new and different business models for musicians in China that let them thrive despite the piracy (actually, in some cases, because of it). Nor does the AP bother to mention how software piracy helped boost certain aspects of the industry in China by decreasing the cost of inputs."
Piracy helps Microsoft maintain their monopoly ...
Let's look at the simple black and white of the matter. Piracy is theft. Whether you agree with it or not, it's theft.
So, according to the OP, theft is good.
That's certainly a new one for me.
ACs are modded -6. I don't read you, I don't mod you, I don't see you. Don't like it? Don't be a coward.
Nice one! Dig up some bilge from an obscure source, for which English seems to be a second language, to support your twisted and view. Sure, everyone else is wrong and biased! Piracy is good for musicians, the industry and the world at large. So says the supposedly unbiased pirate!
Look, if this tripe satisfies your pirate conscience then fine, just keep right on lying to yourself. But, I'm sick of this bullshit! I don;t want to hear anymore from pirates on the subject. When Madaonna and Britney Spears and the Black Eyed Peas start saying that P2P and music piracy is great and helping them, then I'll listen but, when it's just pirates that have never produced ANYTHING themselves, FOAD you commie theives!
It's not the AP that's missing the point here. It's TechDirt. Ignoring the other side of the coin of piracy? What other side, the illegal side? Last I checked, artists shouldn't *have to* change their business model just because some young punk decides to steal their stuff. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? And since when is boosting productivity a justified goal of productivity? Isn't that what open source software is for? Just because piracy makes something easier or cheaper doesn't make it right to do. This article is akin to saying that talking about how murder is illegal misses the point because it doesn't take into account how murder makes the life of the murderer easier. If China can't advance it's economy without pirating and leeching off the backs of others, it doesn't deserve it in the first place.
Splendid! There's nothing like exposure to new ideas to widen ones horizons. Don't you think?
Dont you ever get tired of typing the same argument to get modded insightful every couple of days? If you want to get bitchy about terminology, it could easily be argued that the legal stance (that copyright infringement is not theft) is not a moral one. With that in mind, the whole argument becomes semantic. Basically you're trying to justify your own immoral actions by hiding behind pedantry.
I don't plan to stop calling people who download my stuff illegally 'theives' any time soon, regardless of what legal beaurocrats and Mr. Look-at-me-i'm-insightful have to say.
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.