reply to post by jude11
I find this whole thing funny.
I do not condone illegal downloading.
However I find that I don't feel too sorry for millionaires.
I do feel sorry for people losing jobs due to outsourcing and illegal immigration. They are not just losing some profit, they are losing their entire
living.
But big corporations don't care about the people who helped them grow and become billion dollar companies.
Big corporations care only for profits.
Most of us get up every day and have to earn a living.
How many great ideas and systems were created by employees of large companies and then later these individuals are laid off for the sake of profit?
Where is the compensation for "intellectual property" there?
Imagine typing a document or building some stairs or maintaining an elavator or cleaning an office and then getting paid for the rest of your life
every time someone else uses it.
Wouldn't that be nice.
Instead we have to get up everyday and go to work.
Our fathers and mothers, you and I, support the machine. We helped it grow, by helping to build it and by buying its product.
If a friend of mine came over and sang me a song and then demanded I pay him for it, I'd laugh at him. I sure wouldn't put up with his drug and
alcohol abuse. I certainly wouldn't put up with him beating Rihanna. I would tell him to take his song and shove it.
I just can't figure out why I continue to download songs and then pay for these peoples lifestyles..........