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]

When are you going to understand that because of the nature of music and the nature of cars it's different. I stopped talking about the initial cost a long ass time ago. Music is music. It's information. You can copy and recopy it a million times and it doesn't cost you anything to do so. Cars are actual concrete things and once you steal one, the company or the dealer has not only lost money on a potential sale, but more importantly will also lose money replacing the stolen car. So downloading music is definitely not the same as stealing a CD from a store. The same thing as the car is involved. OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HAS NO IDEA HOW TO READ.

you've never been to conciertos? orchestras? concerts? people pay to hear the music. which is why artists sell records, cassettes, dvds, cds, ETC ETC ETC. SO THEY CAN MAKE MONEY OFF YOU BUYING WHAT THEY PROVIDE. so basically what you're saying is cars are concrete, and music isn't, so we shouldn't pay for it? wtf? some people get paid for their VOICES. that's not concrete, so they shouldn't get paid?

Music is music. It's information. You can copy and recopy it a million times and it doesn't cost you anything to do so.

why should music be any different from anything else people download? or are you saying it's all right to download softwares as well? it cost people money to make music, whether it's the price of the instrument, studio time, labor - it costs money to create it. just because it's free to COPY doesn't mean it's legal.

it isnt illegal to download music, it is illegal to share it.

Everything is legal until you are caught. Morality is completely seperate from lawful. If you were under the impression they were the same you are sadly mistaken.

did you just ignore every post concerning the digital millenium copyright act? and when did i include any of my morals in this? what i stated was a fact: it's illegal to download music.

everything is legal until you get caught? what are you gonna say when you get caught? "i didn't share .mp3s therefore you can't charge me"? it's written down on the digital millenium act that downloading is illegal.

it's the same as drinking under the age of 21; you could go ahead and drink all you want, but it's still illegal.

i don't really give a sh*t about this whole file sharing business. everyone can download whatever crap they want for all i care, but at least i don't go around claiming something isn't illegal when there's already been an act passed against it ;o