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.

[*kryogenix*]

As much as I agree with your points, I'd have to agree with banddorko that radio ( at least, in my city) only plays the stuff that I've heard all the time, the CD's that I've already bought. Media hardly give chances to new and different artists by promoting them on TV, radio and whatnot. A lot of bands that I've heard from downloading haven't been played on the radio.

if they don't play the music you want on the radio, request it.

If I didnt' download it, I wouldn't even have known about their existence!

And if you never knew they existed before, how did you know what to type in the search to download the song?

It is true about people who burn the whole album. But at least for me, I don't do that. Either I hate the band and don't download at all or I love the band so much that I need to support them by buying their CD.

Good for you

AND THE PRICES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE! It's true. I agree, there isn't all the packaging from mp3's you buy online.

But still, you shouldn't be stealing. If you wanted a $100,000 car, but you didn't have $100,000 , should you steal it?