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Well perhaps they are arguably robbing the rich, but they're certainly not paying the poor. The reason I don't like TPB is not because of pirating, but rather
by jakejake 14y ago
Well perhaps they are arguably robbing the rich, but they're certainly not paying the poor.
The reason I don't like TPB is not because of pirating, but rather they are making money from others' work while pretending its about freedom.
It especially annoys me to see fellow programmers getting extremely upset when a software authors work is copied or used in violation with their chosen license. Yet musicians are not allowed to speak up when their work is copied or else they're labeled as greedy and out of touch.
- lumberjack 14y ago>but they're certainly not paying the poor. How so? A lot of the stuff on TPB would be too expensive for the lowest class of working Americans and much more so for most of the rest of the world. It's true that the TPB are profiting out of it (though they are offering a service and covering a market in their own right) but you make it seem like the users are getting nothing out of it. That's blatantly false. A significant part of the 3rd world's technological infrastructure is built on pirated software.