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.

[queen]

Ahh... what CD's are you buying? $20? LOL. If I buy a CD it's usually less than $15.

Again, I just said that there is a huge difference between stealing a car and stealing music. Can you read?

i rounded it off to $20 because cds range in price between $9-19. why did you make a point of saying there's a huge difference between stealing a car and stealing music if you know both are illegal? (which, by the way, was kryogenix's point). you don't really make much sense there.

Um ok. And your point is? Hint: (READING COMPREHENSION).

what exactly is YOUR point? i posted the thread there because you were blabbing on about how cars can't be "copied" and "burned" when it's still the same concept: stealing.

reading comprehension? lol, you can't even seem to understand any of my points and the arguments of those above me.