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]

If you knew how to read, you would have obviously picked up that I think that there are different degrees of stealing. Now that I established that for you...

if YOU knew how to read, then you would have picked up that I KNEW THAT, and TO ME it doesn't matter because STEALING IS STEALING IS STEALING IS STEALING. so what if there's "different degrees" of stealing? what's your point? it's still stealing. i commented on kryogenix's comment to barelyy_coherent's post. the "difference in degree" of stealing is irrelevent. i don't know how YOU jumped in on the topic discussing something when we were just trying to state the obvious: downloading/filesharing = stealing.

based on your other posts such as "i hope you starve" to kryogenix and your post on soul seek, i assume you support filesharing, hence the rest of my questions: "so you're saying just because a car costs more, it should be illegal to steal, yet since a cd is merely $20, it's all right to download the songs from the internet? you're saying it's all right to download games & software for free instead of paying for them at the store?" ---questions that you didn't answer, btw.