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Why don't you see it as immoral or stealing? These companies spend millions on these movies, countless people work on them and depend on them for their wages (n
by lachyg 15y ago
Why don't you see it as immoral or stealing? These companies spend millions on these movies, countless people work on them and depend on them for their wages (not just the actors, but the support crew, the caterers, the make up artists, the lighting crew, editing, post production, script writers, casting agents, location scouts, etc etc). They then charge people a small price for the right to view their work (either in the form of a subscription to Netflix, a movie ticket, an iTunes sale, or a DVD). Yet you think it's moral and fine to have this without paying the authors?
- JulianMorrison 15y agoBecause basically, I don't think that the trouble they go to creates an obligation in me in regard of my network, my hard drive, my screen.
- hnal943 15y agoWhat a convenient morality you have. "I get to have what I want and have no obligation to anyone else." To bad it doesn't scale.
- v0cab 15y ago(I agree with JulianMorrison.) Why doesn't it scale?
- DanEdge 15y agoBecause people who don't pirate stuff are subsidising those who do and if nobody paid for anything, new stuff wouldn't get made (or at least it wouldn't be available from those people who relied on the income from sales to make a living).
- v0cab 15y ago> people who don't pirate stuff are subsidising those who do Well, the pirates aren't asking the buyers to subsidise them. > new stuff wouldn't get made Fine by me.
- tmh88j 15y agoI'd really like to hear your explanation for why you have no obligation. Just because pirating isn't theft in the technical sense, it doesn't mean you're excempt from paying for someone else's work if you use it for their intended purposes. (as in downloading a song and listening to it)
- v0cab 15y agoSomebody probably bought that song originally, and they are sharing it with you.
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- zathen 15y agoYou cannot equate taking a cd and lending it to a friend to taking the contents of a cd and giving it away to a million people that you do not know. Sharing involves one party having to sacrifice and the other having to benefit, not both parties benefiting with absolutely no loss. You know, like sharing your lunch with someone. One sacrifices something so another can benefit. Stop redefining the meaning of the word.
- zathen 15y agoThis is (and I don't mean to offend anyone) more of a deep-rooted psychological problem more than anything else. As people get used to an act, such as piracy, for example, and develop a natural comfort and tendency with it, they have already convinced themselves that what they are doing is not at all immoral or wrong, and would use all available tactics in their arsenal to justify what they are doing.