prayformojo on 21 December 2013
The whole downloading guilt thing started with the record companies fighting against Napster. When Napster came out, we all used it and thought it was the shit. No one considered it stealing, because it wasn't. By downloading a song, game, movie or whatever, YOU'RE not stealing or breaking a law anymore than someone who has a physical CD,game or movie given to them for free. The only person breaking the law is the person duplicating said product.
No one had a problem with this until the internet. We all taped songs off the radio back in the day and dubbed copies with friends. The internet is just a high tech method of the same thing.
