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Originally Posted by Novem5er No, I'm saying that I wouldn't illegally download something, decide NOT to purchase the product, but then continue to use the illegal copy anyway.
It doesn't have anything to do with a big company or small company. As a moral and responsible person, I will financially support the hobbies that I enjoy. But the act of ALSO looking at a copy of said material is not itself immoral.
Distributing material beyond fair use may be immoral. Using material without financially supporting it's creation/distribution may be immoral. But simply accessing that material, without payment, is not immoral by any means... for if it were, then we would live in a dangerous world.
My argument is based on a moral system of patronage, rather than an absolute system of pay-for-knowledge. |
That's a much more interesting argument then what you said previously. I personally don't have a lot of faith in people to morally patronize a piece of IP that they use. I know there are examples of this like Radiohead's new album. I see these as exceptions to the rule. People like free stuff and if given the choice will take things for free. Getting donations out of most people generally requires some sort of guilt trip.
Derek
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