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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Feel free to rationalize all you want by judging for yourself what is more or less harmful to other people - whether you are knowledgeable enough to do so or not. But my recommendation is that people consider taking the high road and simply avoid the potential harm altogether. It doesn't cost much and keeps everyone out of trouble.  |
Rationalize? Okay, here is an example of file sharing- tell me, is it evil or not. A television show is broadcast freely, someone captures it and distributes it over torrent. The show was originally freely given away, but is IP- so what's the deal? And if this is bad, from whose perspective- the company that developed the show, the broadcaster, the advertisers who paid for the broadcast? And if distributing via torrent is bad, well, wouldn't capturing it on Tivo or whatever and watching it also be bad? Especially if your household watches the program more than one time?
People should be a little realistic about these matters. The companies that distribute "content" should accept that they will never be paid what they want to be paid for their content, and consumers should realize it is their purchases that allow content to be created. And musicians should probably wake up and exemine how the record companies have ripped them off for years. Any way you look at it, the paradigms are changing, and no attempt at DRM is going tio change this.