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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, because I was brought up in the 1960s to believe in "right and wrong", and using something without paying for it falls into the category of "wrong".
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I was born in the (late) 60s and I do not think there is a particular moral imperative based on decade. Some not-too-nice things were going on in the world during those times that one could argue are far more "wrong" than the current topic at hand..but I digress
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I'd feel the same way whether or not I had vested interests. When I was a kid, all my friends and I used to spend a significant portion of our pocket money on "45" records.
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Buying music is not unique to your generation...or mine. Or even the current one. I see stores stocked with CDs and Amazon seems to do a good bit of business in this regard as well...
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Today's teenagers just seem to think that they can download whatever they want, for free.
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Ah..the classic "these kids today" thing. You don't think...adults are buying the crap that passes for music these days...do you?!
I have a teenage son BTW and he absolutely does not believe he can download "whatever he wants, for free."
He knows he can. There is no...guesswork involved. He also knows that it is a punishable legal offense and is not acceptable to me.
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I can only think that the parents are to blame; many young people today simply don't seem to understand the idea that it's just plain WRONG to take someone else work without paying for it.
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Many young people have felt this thru out time, Harry. Really. This is not a new phenomenon.
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Simply for people to have respect for other peoples' rights, and to obey the law. I honestly don't think that's asking too much.
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That is again, not really addressing the reality of the situation. This is why one content industry after another fails...time and time again.
Its time for Plan B.
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If a person who would otherwise have bought it has instead downloaded it, that is lost income for the author.
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And what is the...measure...for determining if they *would have bought it* exactly? Its not a matter of if or not they would have bought it...its a matter of if or not they have it.
Again *Potential revenue* is not revenue lost. Its fiat economics, and unless you are a government, that kind of accounting puts you in a prison somewhere
How do we get the money? have you (and I mean you personally this time as opposed to the collective "you") actually ever given any thought to solving *that* problem?
-K