You really need to think about who is victim here. The RIAA has done an extremely good job on selling their point that people "stealing" and are "pirates" of sort. But if you think about what you are doing, you are taking information (IP) you obtained and sharing it with a neighbor. Are you the victim? no. Is your neighbor the victim? no. So who is the victim? those greedy RIAA corporate leaders that demand more money and more power? yes. I think our values are a little skewed if we are at a stage where we think its wrong to share information to protect the "victims" who are using it to control more information and obtain more power.
And does the term Itellectual Property really make sense? I see it as absurd to think some people are so harsh to say they have more right over this information than I.
PEOPLE! we need to wake up and share information to the fullest and use it move forward as a collective society and move away from the class system where the rich and few have power. Everyone deserves information and nobody should just thrown away as insignificant
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You really need to think about who is victim here. The RIAA has done an extremely good job on selling their point that people "stealing" and are "pirates" of sort. But if you think about what you are doing, you are taking information (IP) you obtained and sharing it with a neighbor. Are you the victim? no. Is your neighbor the victim? no. So who is the victim? those greedy RIAA corporate leaders that demand more money and more power? yes. I think our values are a little skewed if we are at a stage where we think its wrong to share information to protect the "victims" who are using it to control more information and obtain more power. And does the term Itellectual Property really make sense? I see it as absurd to think some people are so harsh to say they have more right over this information than I. PEOPLE! we need to wake up and share information to the fullest and use it move forward as a collective society and move away from the class system where the rich and few have power. Everyone deserves information and nobody should just thrown away as insignificant