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Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
reply to post by minkmouse
File sharing is not true piracy. These are people sharing their own copies of a product, that's all it is.
The companies can't claim money on it so they have to make stuff up and make it seem like a bad thing so they can force consumers to buy their product and get richer.
And to top it off, most of that money is not going to the artists, it's going to the lawyers and the people who own the rights to the works.
edit on 3-10-2012 by EvilSadamClone because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
reply to post by minkmouse
File sharing is not true piracy. These are people sharing their own copies of a product, that's all it is.
Originally posted by Andcoulter
Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
reply to post by minkmouse
File sharing is not true piracy. These are people sharing their own copies of a product, that's all it is.
Huh?
If I pay 15 dollars for a CD and are it with 1000 other people for free, that is not piracy? theft? No one is losing out?
So your favorite band can sell one CD and everyone can get a copy for free. I wonder after living expenses, how wonderful that next album is going to be with what is left of that 15 dollars.
Everyone that has a copy, what you call sharing, has a pirated copy. If I share my car, I do not still get to drive it while someone is driving it do I?
Are you telling me people on PB share files by uploading them and then deleting them and then only one other person has it until they are ready to share it with someone else by uploading it to be available to one other person and then deleting it?
Or are people getting their own copies of stuff for free?
Originally posted by AlpineFrost
Why is society slowly decaying?
In my opinion the population that I can see, from my prospective, is full of self-entitled people. A room full of end users who are unhappy with the products that are being created, but still find it totally necessary to watch/listen/read every piece of it. In a world full of anti-Hollywood and anti-record label rantings, there still seems to be a long list of people who still want that "crap" as it is called. You may not see it as stealing because “you wouldn't have bought it anyways”, but it still seems like you are extremely unhappy about not being able to download and watch/listen/read it right now. The free exchange of ideas is still available to all of you that seek it. But the cost of one man/woman’s ideas should not be determined by the person who wants it, it should be determined by the person who created it. Don't like that multi-billionaire club in Hollywood... Stop watching. Don't like those giant record labels... Stop listening. Make your own. Want the world to change maybe you should start the revolution yourself.
Originally posted by AlpineFrost
reply to post by Sparky63
Why do you collect things that you state have no intrinsic value? If these items were worthless to you, then why is it so important that you have access to them. You take them because you can, not because they have no worth.
Originally posted by AlpineFrost
reply to post by Sparky63
My appologies for the assumption. I just think that the world would be a better place if we put more work into resolving the issues that many of you have with the Copyright laws, instead of remaining on the path of supporting sites that allow people to just take someone elses ideas simple because they can.