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August 13, 2007 4:34 AM PDT
Kids justify illegal downloads, study finds
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Most of the companies make it easy for a person to download something, then others find it, and download it without checking if it's "legal" or not. Most places I go to, I just assume that what I download(as long as it doesn't have a virus) is safe and legal, and I don't usually check for disclaimers, unless it's clearly stated on a site and the first thing I see.
When a child destroys property, the parent is responsible for restitution. Only in EXTREMELY rare cases is a parent expected to also reimburse for loss of services due to the property being unusable from the time of destruction to the time of replacement.
Now because downloads do not destroy any property, the only thing the artist is losing is income gained from their services (song). Remove the recording of the song from the person, and that removes the service gained from it, and removes the loss of any income. In NO case should a parent EVER be charged more than $500 as a civil fine for their child's illegal downloading of music, i.e. receipt of stolen goods.
Of course it's a completely different ball of wax if the child in question is doign large-scale distribution of the illegal downloads.
Governments justify spying on people (and other misdeeds) in the name of security.
Religions justify discrimination because "It's what God wants".
Parents justify cheating on taxes.
Kids just do as they see others do; so why Wouldn't they justify piracy?
Everything the industry has been saying for years lacks credibility... how did they not think this was going to hurt them?
People have been complaining about pricing for a very long time now... again, surprised that people have found a way around it?
The best fight against piracy?
Fair prices, quality product, reasonable expectations about fair-use.
Most people don't want inferior illegal product... but given the two choices it's the lesser of two evils.
The largest component of the BSA's so-called "piracy statistics" is their under-estimation of the use of FLOSS.
That said, it frustrates me that people will infringe software copyright rather than switching to perfectly legal FLOSS alternatives. I have no copyright infringing software on any of my computers, and only a tiny amount of non-FLOSS.
http://flora.ca/floss
http://digital-copyright.ca
Catch up, people.