01-22-2006, 02:47 AM
How about book piracy? Don't buy that good book, just download the digital copy and read it on your eBook. Who suffers? Publishers and authors of books.
How about movie piracy? Don't buy or rent that VHS or DVD, just download it. Who suffers? The studio's who put up millions to make the film, the artists and technicians who worked on the film, the video rental companies, their employee's, etc.
How about software piracy? Why line the pockets of rich software companies like Microsoft, or Blizzard? Just download the cracked version of the software. Who suffers? The makers of the software, and all their employees.
Let's make this a tangible example since it seems no one feels very bad about piracy.
When I was growing up on the farm this actually happened. A wealthy family moved in to the small farm next to ours, and they knew less than nothing about farming. But, within a few weeks they had goats, chickens, horses, cows, rabbits, and I'm sure some other things. We had a much larger farm and grew all the hay, straw, and grain for our livestock and had our own grainery, and corn cribs for drying our crops. Midwinter we started to notice that the supplies are dropping faster that they should, and for some of our neccesities the projections are for us to run low before spring. Yes, the wealthy people next door were helping themselves to our grainery. I'm sure to them when they looked at it in the fall it was an enourmous stockpile. Experienced farmers grow enough to make it through the winter until the spring. We called the sheriff and the neighbors blamed the theft on their dog. Needless to say, after that time, whenever any animal of theirs crossed the fence it was destroyed. The next year, we actually caught them out in our corn field picking our corn before harvest.
Free means freely given, not freely taken. If you take the sweat and labor of another without permission you are stealing. That is how I look at it. When it comes to music, my stance is that if you own the CD, then you can rip the songs to play on your MP3 player. Music is so cheap. Why not own it?
How about movie piracy? Don't buy or rent that VHS or DVD, just download it. Who suffers? The studio's who put up millions to make the film, the artists and technicians who worked on the film, the video rental companies, their employee's, etc.
How about software piracy? Why line the pockets of rich software companies like Microsoft, or Blizzard? Just download the cracked version of the software. Who suffers? The makers of the software, and all their employees.
Let's make this a tangible example since it seems no one feels very bad about piracy.
When I was growing up on the farm this actually happened. A wealthy family moved in to the small farm next to ours, and they knew less than nothing about farming. But, within a few weeks they had goats, chickens, horses, cows, rabbits, and I'm sure some other things. We had a much larger farm and grew all the hay, straw, and grain for our livestock and had our own grainery, and corn cribs for drying our crops. Midwinter we started to notice that the supplies are dropping faster that they should, and for some of our neccesities the projections are for us to run low before spring. Yes, the wealthy people next door were helping themselves to our grainery. I'm sure to them when they looked at it in the fall it was an enourmous stockpile. Experienced farmers grow enough to make it through the winter until the spring. We called the sheriff and the neighbors blamed the theft on their dog. Needless to say, after that time, whenever any animal of theirs crossed the fence it was destroyed. The next year, we actually caught them out in our corn field picking our corn before harvest.
Free means freely given, not freely taken. If you take the sweat and labor of another without permission you are stealing. That is how I look at it. When it comes to music, my stance is that if you own the CD, then you can rip the songs to play on your MP3 player. Music is so cheap. Why not own it?
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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