| XiaoMay said: That s true ! Here is another argument : if when at your job someone told you : "You work, fine. But whether we will pay you or not depends if we want to. Also we may be entitled to take your work and use it, without your permission and without you being paid. We will call this a piracy contract (lol)"... What would everybody say ?
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Sounds like a standard policy for the new ones to the entertainment industry. Now while it is hearsay, I understand that a movie got picked up by one of the airlines and was played on each long-distance flight for the summer. Thousands of viewings, I'm sure the company that sold the viewing rights to the airline did just fine. But the writers of that movie got paid, in total, $40.
And while I agree that the attitude of "Well, others do it too" doesn't justify lowering your standards, many if not most companies that complain about copyright infringement (ie piracy) pay out plenty in the lawsuits that they have been judged to have done just that. And on a much wider scale as an entity than any of our pirates we have here. Strangely enough, they keep the more neutral term of 'copyright infringement', reserving the more strongly worded terms of 'stealing' and 'piracy' for those that take their product without paying for it. Interesting, isn't it.
As for me, it's not an issue for piracy of music, DVDs or games. DVDs come thru Netflix. I read a lot, so I get to steal from the public library. Then a few weeks after they were due back (thus the stealing part), I return them and apologize. I wouldn't even do that, but since the librarian is nice enough to unblock my card, it's the least that I can do, before I go down the aisles to steal more books.
Ummmm. If the servers would allow uploading back from your PC and you cleaned it out, would it then just be borrowing? Without permission, of course.
Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.
