Your stance on piracy ?

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impur1ty said:

We all have a box in our houses that can copy any data we want, directly saving us money whilst (potentially) indirectly costing someone else money, yet we're told it is wrong to do so.

In my opinion, the interests of the masses outweighs the interests of the few.

If a company goes out of business, its business plan was ineffective. Simple. Nobody cries for the man who sold ice before we all had freezers.


File sharing is not immoral, nor a form of theft. If anything, it's a reflection of our technological advances. There's no coming back.

We also all have (well, most of us) hands and legs which can kick and punch through glass windows or take a loaf of bread from the market and walk out without paying for it.  Is that not immoral just because I have these things (well, we mostly do).  The masses would LOVE free bread, but the bread maker and store clerk definetly wouldn't like giving it away for free.  Clothes too while I'm at it, I guess all of these business should go out of business.

 

Your ice seller analogy is not a good one to piracy as it's not the same thing.  That would be analogous to a business who dunno, allowed you to back up all your games on their big back up machine (they had the tech to do it while others did not) and died once the back up machine tech became widespread and cheap.

 

Filesharing is immoral but is unstoppable in the digital universe and resources are better spent trying not to sell software but to sell services.