This isn't necessarily my opinion, but the following article by Benj Edwards from PCWorldmakes a very good case for it in his article.
Please note that it is three pages long and you must click on the page 2 and 3 link to continue reading the article.
What are your thoughts about this?
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After reading the article my views on piracy changed a little. Piracy doesn't seem very bad. They made good points saying that sometimes if things aren't pirated they could be lost forever. I think some stuff it should be okay and other stuff it shouldn't. It depends on what kind of things it is i guess. By reading the article i know a little more about piracy and what it does and what i think a major pro of it is, is that it makes so many things possible that wouldn't be if people didn't pirate things. In my opinion, if you knew anything about piracy and knew how widley spread it was, you simply shouldn't have put your stuff on the internet in the first place. And for the person that did, it should be their responsibility to take care of it, not all of the people that downloaded it.
I think the picacy policy is bad. Why would you charge one person and not another person? If you dont want people to pirate music then maybe they should consider lowering the price of music. Some people pirate music because they dont want to pay the prices. But yet i dont think its right for them to do that. The companys are just trying to make money but are just pulling money out of peoples pockets. So how about they meet in the middle and lower the prices and they might make more money.
I think that it's unfair. Why should one person have to pay for something while another person doesn't? But I don't think they should try and totally stop it but it'll probably only make it worse. And I think the reason that people pirate music is because it's so expensive. So maybe they should just lower prices. It's crazy how they overprice things. I know it's to make the company money that they lose because of pirators, so if we could just get a happy medium it'd all be great.
I personally am border line on this topic. It has to do pirates illegally downloading games, and other softwares. When doing so, pirates acually help every day users. They make the software more avaliable. Why is it important to make the software more avaliable? Well, technology is changing every day- faster than ever before in history. Priacy gets the software out there so it is much easier to access. A lot of people believe this is not fair and think that the creator should get all of the profit from the program but a lot of times this stuff is overpriced and buying it all would be impossible. For example music, you can spend $20 on music very easily through itunes or you can go on the internet and get it free somewhere else. If you bought all of your music you wouldn't have that extra money for other things.
But thats how some history is remembered, i'm not for piracy but im not against it either. The online media thing is a good idea. But i do understand how people feel ripped off but some people are still buying it. I can see why companies make it a big deal especially if its there product. Maybe history should be documented better so we wouldnt have to worry about piracy.
I dont think that piracy is a compleatly bad thing. There are still thousands of people out there to buy the songs, games, or movies from them but I can see where there coming from. The big companies should find a way to stop these downloads or find another way because shutting them down would not be the best thing to do. Song downloaded from other sources for free have a bad quality to so if people want good songs they will go to itunes or another store like that.
I think some harmless copying should be allowed but others should be carefully watched. No one wants the big named sites to be shut down because for some of us, those sites are all we know. There should be some sites that allow copying and is still legal.
I don't exactly like the idea of piracy, but after reading the article it made me have a some what different perspective on the whole idea of piracy. After reading it i found out that a video game database, MobyGames that holds 60,000 games, and 23,000 of the games would've been gone forever if it wasn't for piracy. The reason so many would be gone is because that many were stored on floppy disks or cassette tapes that eventually lose all their data. So in a way it's kind of good that all the game publishers and copyright laws didn't get their way otherwise almost half of the games that MobyGames holds would be gone forever.
I dont think this should be as big of issue as everyone is making it to be. Piracy is bad, but without it we wouldnt have youtube, or google or hardly any of the sites we use why should the governement care about this anyway they should have bigger problems to worry about the kids using pirated videos. People should try not to pirate but its still going to happen they cant stop them. Even if they do make laws against who is actualy going to follow those laws.
I think some piracy is okay. Sure the people producing games, movies or songs are mad because they're losing money when people aren't buying their stuff, but most of them have enough money as it is. So many people still buy the stuff legally anyway. I'd hate to see youtube and wikipedia lose everything that's been put into them over all these years. I personally don't mind movies and songs being pirated because I'm not the person producing it. But downloading pirated content can get you into trouble. This guy i work with downloaded hundreds of movies and songs and got a letter in the mail that said he could be fined like $500,000. That's a lot of money!
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