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Originally Posted by BoGGiT This!
I can't understand why people still, after all these years, still think it's relevant at all to discuss whether or not online piracy is "right" or "wrong". Trying to convince people to stop downloading torrents is like trying to convince people to stop masturbating. You can do it with the gravitas of Henry the fifth, with rhetorics that would make Cicero himself green with envy. You can do it in a speech in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Guess what? People would still masturbate.
Oh, warlockwannabe asked for stuff produced in Spain and then exported. To be quite honest, I can't really think of much except for that horrible, horrible song they made all the rest of Europe listen to during the Eurovision Song Contest finals last weekend. Oh, there is something though, a novel written centuries ago about a guy fighting windmills...
Ironically enough, it's public domain and available for download here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/996 |
Masturbating doesn't hurt anyone. Illegal downloads cause financial hardships (for probably most but not all IP creators). Teaching empathy and showing that illegal downloads are not something you would want done to your own IP COULD convince others to stop and actually pay someone a fair price for their work. I know it's not likely, but it's worth a try.
Derek
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