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Here's the root of the problem: copyright is no longer enforceable. You can throw a tantrum, tell us all how unhappy we will be, sue six year olds for hundreds
by reinhardt 14y ago
Here's the root of the problem: copyright is no longer enforceable. You can throw a tantrum, tell us all how unhappy we will be, sue six year olds for hundreds of thousands of dollars, make complicated software that pretends to manage your digital rights, but ultimately it will be of no use.
IOW, the answer to "why do we pirate" is "because we can with little risk of being caught". I would respect more piracy proponents if they just said so instead of trying to come up with moral rationalizations like "it's ok because you are not denying anybody else the copy".
- ynniv 14y agoI think that people say denying anybody else the copy when copying is equated to property theft. I'm pretty sure that "no one can honestly stop us" has been the basis of piracy since Bill Gates first called copiers "pirates". [ http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/gatesletter.html http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_... ]
- reinhardt 14y agoIt's not property theft, it's akin to labor and resource theft; content creation does not come for free.