Khuutra on 29 January 2009
| nordlead said: When I was young and not a computer engineer and didn't really think it through I pirated. Everyone was doing it... But I learned and now I support those who provide good entertainment. The argument that you wouldn't have payed $$ anyways doesn't make it right. These companies are trying to provide entertainment and get paid for it. If you don't pay for it, it isn't your right to be able to enjoy the entertainment they created for free. The copying bits thing doesn't even matter, it is a matter of using someone else's hard work for your own entertainment without providing proper compensation. |
This is really an excellent point, and it brings to mind the idea that having an idea which is inherently yours is a novel concept in the scope of human history. For as long as we have had oral storytelling and writing, the relaying of stories by people who heard them was not only expected, it was necessary.
I have to wonder if this act of expecting compensation for a creation is actually reasonable in a historical sense.
