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Originally Posted by nekokami
In your mind, is it morally necessary to compensate someone for their labor, assuming they have not voluntarily donated that labor?
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It's common practice to lend books to friends, let someone else read an article in a magazine you've purchased, allow visitors to your home watch your DVDs. I don't think many people see a moral necessity to compensate producers for work received second hand in such circumstances.
All that has changed is the
scale of sharing that can take place; and whether that is enough to make us reassess what is morally legitimate.
I can sympathise with producers who see the sheer scale of 'global sharing' as a threat. But I also want to defend my right to 'common-sense sharing' - and ultimately my interests as a consumer are more important (to me) than their interests as producers. I am a long way from being convinced that a world of Draconian DRM restrictions is less 'evil' than a world of laissez-faire pirating.