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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, "Mental" wrote:
> Piracy is going to happen. It happens to music, software, you name it.
> There are certain individuals who are _never_ going to buy things.
> Its not a lost sale. They're not loosing money. Given the choice, these
> are people who would never have paid money to begin with.
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 "Michael W. Ryan" wrote:
>Just because piracy is going to happen doesn't make it legal, right, or
>acceptable. And yes, it does cause lost sales. Pirates do not
>necessarily limit themselves to a personal copy. If they can make a copy
>for themselves, they can make a copy for others and sell it, at a cheap
>price. And given a digital medium, you're not going to have the
>degradation problems that you have with VHS/tape. So there's no motive
>whatsoever to buy a legitimate copy.
There's no denying that larceny is in the heart of the young -- they have yet
to work and acquire things or create and sell things, so ripping off someone
who has done either/both seems so morally proper -- "why should they have what
I don't"?
There's an unsavory and unsettling parallel here: to those who would like to
spend the redistributed wealth of others and not have to earn it.
Either way, the predictable result is the same: if work product cannot be
protected by those who work, or, if property cannot be protected by those who
acquire it, they will stop working, inventing, producing, and struggling --
leaving the rest of us far worse off. Bravo to you, Mr. Ryan for your response.
Tom
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