I look at it this way: if I were to create something, even if that something ends up as a bunch of 1's and 0's, with the intent of selling it, and you take it without paying for it, that's stealing.
I think it's wrong, but I still occasionally do it. I sample music before I buy, for sure. I still like to have a physical copy of all my music, thanks to the 90's. Tv shows occasionally. I have gotten some pay android apps and themes this way, as well.
I do agree, however, that there needs to be some compromise on both sides. People are going to pirate content. Sorry. It's just going to happen. I would venture to say that most people 30 and younger know how and/or have done it. Content is so ubiquitous that the old price structure is ridiculous, and drives the pirating movement. There is no dearth of content, and yet we are paying for it like it isn't available literally everywhere. One thing's for certain---major labels, the MPAA, and the RIAA need to be gone, and quick. Artists need to go direct to consumer, and cut out the middle man.
I think it's wrong, but I still occasionally do it. I sample music before I buy, for sure. I still like to have a physical copy of all my music, thanks to the 90's. Tv shows occasionally. I have gotten some pay android apps and themes this way, as well.
I do agree, however, that there needs to be some compromise on both sides. People are going to pirate content. Sorry. It's just going to happen. I would venture to say that most people 30 and younger know how and/or have done it. Content is so ubiquitous that the old price structure is ridiculous, and drives the pirating movement. There is no dearth of content, and yet we are paying for it like it isn't available literally everywhere. One thing's for certain---major labels, the MPAA, and the RIAA need to be gone, and quick. Artists need to go direct to consumer, and cut out the middle man.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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