you are just sharing files. i don't care what the laws are there should be nothing against sharing. they should not be able to control that. bootlegging fine i can understand that i'm all for that. but if a person chooses to share files with other people then that shouldn't be a problem. record companies and movie companies have many venues of profit.
2007-03-15 04:45:43 · 5 answers · asked by mlkirchgessner 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
ok i agree to a certain extent clancy but that's a bit extreme don't you think
2007-03-15 05:02:09 · update #1
Using BitTorrent is legal, downloading copyrighted material isn’t. Be careful of what you download or face the consequences.
1)Download BitComet
http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/download.htm
(How to use a torrent)
http://support.bittorrent.com/cgi-bin/bittorrent.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php
2)Goto any of the Top 35 Torrent Sites of 2007
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/peersharing/a/torrent_search.htm
And search those sites for the stuff you are looking for
2007-03-15 05:12:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The problem is that you're not just stealing from the record companies and software companies, you're stealing from real people, the ones who do the actual work. And yes, downloading something without paying for it is stealing it. Musicians who are incredibly rich make up only a small percentage of working musicians. I have a musician in the family who has a CD out, and he works six days most weeks just to pay his bills. He plays gigs around once a month, but the pay still isn't great. He may have to give that up and take on a second job soon because he can't afford insurance and his wife is having some health problems. He doesn't make much profit off of CD sales, but people stealing his work is potentially the difference between working one job while doing the occasional gig or working two jobs and not doing gigs at all. People sometimes justify stealing music by saying that musicians should make music because they love it. They do. They also love being able to eat and not being homeless.
The same principle applies to movies and software. The large companies make tons of money, but the ordinary people don't. They're the ones who pay the price in lost wages and lost jobs, if the company loses enough to lay people off. Your greed hurts plenty of innocent, honest people. Then again, that's what criminals do, I guess.
2007-03-15 07:29:07 · answer #2 · answered by Rose D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So by your logic, it'd be cool if I spliced into your cable tv and got all my shows for free and used your wireless router connection for my internet needs and slept with your girlfriend when you weren't around? I mean, that's just sharing, right? All the bills are still getting paid, so it's no big deal.
Okay, so the girlfriend thing's a bit of a stretch, but everything else still applies. As long as I'm not hogging all the bandwidth or messing up your cable signal it's the exact same thing. You keep paying the bills to make sure the cable company doesn't go out of business and I get all the free TV and internet I want because we're "sharing" the service, right?
2007-03-15 04:51:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
limewire, bitlord bit lord is a torrent downloader , limewire is a P2P sharing community. yet another is Ares that's safer than limewire yet plenty slower. i acquire classes, yet ascertain you know what you're downloading asess the report length and report variety. video games and classes arent allowed human beings only upload them or share them. circuitously they get corrupted and grow to be viruses. its problematical to end as a lot of human beings acquire them and use sharing networks
2016-09-30 23:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arrrr! mate... they call us pirates!
2007-03-15 04:52:59 · answer #5 · answered by megasparks0101 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋