Now, I'd like to ask you something: who are the thieves here? Those who sell original digital products at very high prices to earn much more that they spend to produce them, or the ones who are forced to buy pirate copies given the absurd prices of the original ones?
2006-12-02 02:47:09 · 8 answers · asked by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The insinuation within your question is correct, in a sense both can be considered to be thieves.
The next question, then, would be this: Which are the legal, law-abiding thieves and which are the illegal, law-breaking thieves?
2006-12-02 02:54:48 · answer #1 · answered by bubba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya' know, 13-14 years ago I bought cassette tapes of some of my favorite bands at a garage sale (couldn't afford cd's). If some jackass is going to tell me I can't sell any media I own as personal property and not intellectual property, then we should just piss off the entire country by outlawing the black market and garage sales altogether. Anything that you own that you didn't create by hand or by use of technology? It's not yours. Get a license to sell it. Your intellect wasn't used in the creation of this garment? Then I guess you can't sell it.
It's going to go that far. Ironically, it's what some fools pray for. Use once, throw away. No recycling or reusing. You need to keep buying and it will keep piracy to a minimum. Hello dystopian wasteland?
No way. You can't put trust in every day that you won't get shot. Why put trust in that one more person would legitimately buy intellectual property?
The overall case has more bad outcomes than good. Blame those that opened the Pandora's Box on digital media and distribution. They can't stop the technology from going forward now, so it's too late. Some things have already been done such as Sony and their rootkits, copyright protection, etc... what's next? Are you going to infringe on a person's privacy digitally or otherwise to ensure that another excessively compulsive millionaire brat gets another million? Why is it that only the big names in media are concerned? Who would ruin it for the fledgling artist who performs and distributes sometimes for free and at others extremely low cost?
I'm a musician myself- by myself. I could care less what people do with my media after I create it and make a sale. What I DO care about, is someone unethically claiming they actually created or wrote said content on the media. THAT is a different issue and is irrelevant from today's misguided propositions.
Information should be free. Spread the knowledge.
2006-12-02 03:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by mystik_rhythms 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The thief is the pirate, people have a right to charge whatever they want for stuff that belongs to them, not that they should, but just because it more then someone is willing to pay doesn't give the person the right to just take it. Think about it in the physical sense, say you go to grocery store and they are selling apples for $200 bucks a piece, just because it's an outrageous price doesn't give anyone the right to just take them. It's laws of supply and demand, the music companies charge as much as they can get for something. If no one was willing to by them at that price, then they would have to sell them for less, or not make any money. It doesn't matter how much it cost to make, what matters in the busness man's eyes, how much people are willing to pay for it.
2006-12-02 03:01:36 · answer #3 · answered by Out a no where Dan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are the one that makes a picture and want to make a large profit from it but someone is taking your picture and making copies of it to sell for a small price, who is in the wrong, you for wanting to make a good profit from it or the one that is copying it and selling it for almost nothing? I think in this case you would say YOU are the one that is being wronged as you are the one that has the expertise to make that picture and make it to where people want to buy it and give the ooh's and ahh's. The other guy can only copy that talent as he could not do it if you paid him to do it so how else will he be able to do it? Does anyone have a gun on you to make you buy that pireted copy that someone makes that does not have the talent to do one for himself? it is really YOUR choice to either buy or not to buy, to give what is due to the one that made it and put the money out to make it in the first place, or give less to someone that just wanted to take someone else's work and make money on it. What would you do if it was YOUR work that was being copied and sold and YOU were gettng nothing for it but had bills to pay for making it?
2006-12-02 02:59:35 · answer #4 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not very bright are you. It's called intellectual property. Nobody is forcing you to buy pirated cd's/dvd's.
Pirated cd's, music, movies, dvd's, and computer software is stolen. Don't you get that? The people selling you the pirated goods are crooks. Now you're giving your money to criminals.
Here's just one example
2006-12-02 02:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by smatthies65 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to that question is simple.
The thieves are those who buy the pirated copies !!!!
Thats the law...the very same law that would protect you if you produced something.
So you think the digital companies are guilty of overcharging ???
If thats the case....do without.
2006-12-02 02:53:52 · answer #6 · answered by wombat2u2004 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you produced a CD and everyone stole it and denied your work, you would be on the other side of the question. Why is it different than stealing anything else?
2006-12-02 02:57:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your real quesion is "how do I justify stealing?"
No one is forced to buy anything.
2006-12-02 02:50:23 · answer #8 · answered by cowrepo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋