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Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "David Pogue of the New York Times has an interesting story about how fewer and fewer people believe that infringement is wrong. He mentions talks he gave back in 2005 where people were willing to believe that making backups of DVDs you own is wrong. Today, however, at his talks, he was only able to get two people out of a crowd of five hundred college students to say that downloading a movie or album is wrong. He goes on, like many before him, to bemoan the immorality of young people today, saying: 'I do know, though, that the TV, movie and record companies' problems have only just begun. Right now, the customers who can't even *see* why file sharing might be wrong are still young. But 10, 20, 30 years from now, that crowd will be *everybody*. What will happen then?'"
Obviously someone without a job is incapable of using logic to come to a conclusion. And obviously, all college kids don't have real jobs.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Perhaps we note that "significant other" refers to someone else, who is significant. Intellectual Property is *not* property.
Alright, and do you have the mental capacity to understand how that's a DIFFERENT ARGUMENT than the one I was addressing, which claimed that it's a bad term because it refers to several things that are very different?
Seriously, do debates about IP have some kind of magical power that shuts of people's mental capacities?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.