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Comment on No, Silly, Piracy is Theft by Rob

Rob — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:01 +0000

I see a lot of things going back and forth here, but I still come back to the place that (most) people will pay for what they like if it’s at a decent price.

Examples:
Amarok
Ubuntu (plus the other scads of *nix distros which take donations)
iTunes
Simon Klose just funded a movie about the pirate bay in 3 days ($25,000) from volunteered donations

Now I don’t pirate (I used to), but I also don’t pay for something unless I actually like it. Would I buy a cd? Heck no… most of the songs on cds are worthless except for a title track. I did, however, buy a windows license (which I’ve never done) when they had a student sale for 7 @ $40. I figured it was worth it, so I bought it. I could have pirated it, but the cost was within what I thought it was worth.

FYI the record labels have lost ALL my purchases simply because they keep pushing out worthless music (my preference). I used to just pirate what I liked, but now since I don’t pirate and the labels get a huge chunk of whatever I pay, I don’t listen to any of it.

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Tweets that mention Software Developers are Doomed -- Topsy.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:34:57 +0000

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Comment on No, Silly, Piracy is Theft by Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:04:42 +0000

Let’s say I find an apple tree on public land, pick an apple and eat it. Is that wrong? Did I steal any revenue from my local supermarket because I picked an apple from the tree rather than buying an apple from them? If the apple tree did not exist, would I have necessarily gone to the local supermarket and bought an apple? If one or two people pick apples from the tree probably no one will notice, but if everyone starts doing it, the supermarket will complain to the city and the city will remove the tree; but by then, some people will have saved their apple seeds and will grow new apple trees on private land for everyone to share. Trying to stop piracy is like trying to stop people from doing anything else; It just isn’t going to happen. Once people know they are able to do something, it is impossible to get them to stop.

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Anda la osa (is Back) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:40:35 +0000

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