file sharing. Options

[*kryogenix*]

file sharing. should people be allowed to "share" software, movies and music with others over the internet, or is this cheating the author/studio/artist etc. ?

I believe file sharing is wrong. People are hard at work producing these things. Why don't people just buy the licensce to the software/movie/music?

Why am I against file sharing? Because I'm going to be a computer programmer. I don't want to starve because some 12 year old downloaded my program off KaZaA. Think about how the artists must feel. I know they aren't starving, but still, they aren't receiving money that's rightfully theirs.

Software is to be treated like a book. You purchase the "book" and can read and access the material within the "book" any time you want. You can even share the "book" with a friend. However, because two people in two different places cannot be reading a book at the same time. When you lend the "book" to someone, you effectively lend them the licensce to view the book as they please. The same goes with software. Treat it as a book. You can share, but when you do so you are transferring the licensce to the person you are sharing with.

Sharing is fine, but only when one of the parties has a licensce to use the media that they are sharing.

[banddorko]

the radio...? i don't know where you live, but the radio here is all country and top 40, which is not the kind of music i like.

i also don't think 30 seconds is enough. i usually go to barnes and noble and listen to the samples there, and some of the cd's i bought from there that i thought would be good from the samples suck.

file sharing has made me buy a lot more cd's. i hadn't bought a cd for over 6 months. after i got kazaa lite (about 8 months ago) i bought over 30 cd's because i could sample music easily. and who really downloads whole cd's off kazaa or something? i think it's way too much work with all the fake files and stuff.

plus if you buy a cd without listening to it first and you don't like it, i don't get the point. so the band that you don't like makes money because you were curious about how they sounded?

i would be content if bands let you listen to their whole cd on their website (i know some do, but others usually only have a song or two), but i don't think that will happen....