Being an semi-retired video gamer, I just recently got back into the habit of playing them again. However, most of the ones that I seek aren't available thru the companies that made them anymore. File Sharing is wonderful for the simple fact that stuff you haven't seen in years, you can see again. NES Games, SNES games, Gameboy games, etc. I don't see how this is stealing, since these games aren't being sold as much as they were when they came out.
To be honest here in the US, most people at this point are looking for ways to cut costs down in getting software. If they see this as one of them, they are going to do it no matter what moral fibers tell them not to. The man who ran the DrinkOrDie system shouldn't be jailed, because all of us who use P2P would have to be then. I would think there are far more dangerous crimes that are being commiteed right now, that this would be very low on the list.
It's good that AOL doesn't get invovled handing over Subscriber's information, of course that don't do that because they did it a few years earlier and were sued to high heaven. The RIAA wants it's money, and I agree with that. But the RIAA is gonna have to make these artists make better music than the shit that is out now. I was just listening to Micheal Jackson's "Thriller", and if anybody could come up with a album that good enough for me to spend $20 bucks on, go right ahead and make it. Then I wouldn't be so tempted to steal.
Just my.02
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Being an semi-retired video gamer, I just recently got back into the habit of playing them again. However, most of the ones that I seek aren't available thru the companies that made them anymore. File Sharing is wonderful for the simple fact that stuff you haven't seen in years, you can see again. NES Games, SNES games, Gameboy games, etc. I don't see how this is stealing, since these games aren't being sold as much as they were when they came out. To be honest here in the US, most people at this point are looking for ways to cut costs down in getting software. If they see this as one of them, they are going to do it no matter what moral fibers tell them not to. The man who ran the DrinkOrDie system shouldn't be jailed, because all of us who use P2P would have to be then. I would think there are far more dangerous crimes that are being commiteed right now, that this would be very low on the list. It's good that AOL doesn't get invovled handing over Subscriber's information, of course that don't do that because they did it a few years earlier and were sued to high heaven. The RIAA wants it's money, and I agree with that. But the RIAA is gonna have to make these artists make better music than the shit that is out now. I was just listening to Micheal Jackson's "Thriller", and if anybody could come up with a album that good enough for me to spend $20 bucks on, go right ahead and make it. Then I wouldn't be so tempted to steal. Just my .02