Trite and beside the point. The issue is duplicating intellectual property just because it is easy. To quote you, a child can understand this. Don't waste our time with silliness. Yet the poll shows that most of us disagree, which is also why the laws exist and are not going to be changed just to make life easy for slackers and thieves.
This has already been asked and answered, junior. The new system doesn't number posts or i would cite them. Plus, I just repeated my self above. Are you stupid? You can keep repeating the same questions and ignoring my previous answers, but you are wasting my time and boring me.
i thought the issue was that people deserve to be paid for work. apparently they dont. thats not how right and wrong works. polls are to answer questions about what people think, not what the proper answer is. i cant help it if i am ahead of my time and the rest of you clods are not.
sorry to hear that, i dont want you to be bored i want you to be invigorated by your own ability to admit when you are wrong.
That was the reason that you were asking for why the issue exists. Stop pretending to be an idiot. Hey you asked why it benefitted society, so what society thinks is absolutely relevant. Nice try, Jethro. Then why don't you get a job with your 6th grade education. You could be a sophisticated Hollywood producer, or an international playboy, or a brain surgeon, or a double-naught spy.
society doesnt know what is best for itself. we should hope that decisions are made by the intelligentsia, not the poll-answering clods. i am interested in what people think, but not interested in implementing the stupid self defeating policies they favor. if wanted to maximize revenues for particular interest groups, we could outlaw wikipedia and make everyone buy encyclopedias. and that would be great for writers of articles. but terrible, i mean really terrible for everyone else. information shouldnt be hoarded, it should be spread to everyone who wants it, so we can all hold hands and be smart together.
Illegal duplication should only be against the law if I were to make a copy of something and start selling it to profit for myself. This is the recording industry and movie industry grasping on for dear life because they are now completely IRRELEVANT!!!! No one needs them anymore. Distribution, cd's, all that shit, dinosaurs. It's dead. Get over it. Shit changes, and policing people for file sharing when they DIDNT STEAL A DAMN THING, is ridiculous, and completely American.
exactly correct. rights holders should retain the exclusive right to profit financially from their works. they should not hold exclusive distribution rights.
When you share/loan a book, legal or not, profit is lost. Argue all you want, the person you loan/share to will have no need to go and BUY the book. File sharing, is just a digital means of taking the book over to a friend. Instead of taking the physical nature of the book, we have simply transcribed its content to a digital file. The original item is not stolen, but shared. Profit is still lost. You hacks keep quoting law as if it is the end all be all. It's not.. So good luck with all that jazz, ask black people how pro the law system is. Or Illegals for that matter. Again, if the argument is loss of income, sharing a book is just as naughty as sharing a file. STOP, before you recite back to me the process of recreating a digital file, you must first understand that somewhere down the line, the original file, was in fact bought and then shared. Technology has just given us the means to share to more people, you know, like cars help you to get from point A to point B faster. Simply being illegal or legal is not the point now is it, because the true nature of this argument is profits. Ahhh, profits. So when does sharing become not sharing? When the duplicate is traded or bartered, but then again, that isn't sharing now is it.
