Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
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Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
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Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#2Stealing a cake is definitely theft, then.
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#3On morality: given how widespread the piracy is, we probably shouldn't assert that the moral side of the things is obvious here.
Regarding the law, that's one way to look at that. Another way is that the role of copyright is about to change, and disobeying the law en masse might be one way to help that change.
(Disclaimer: I'm not much of a pirate myself, I have a US iTunes Store account despite living in Russia just to be able to buy music legally. Also I'm earning money by writing software. But being able to copyright music and software is not a given, it's just how things work today, and as the world changes, this concept will also evolve.)
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#4About as poor a post on piracy as the rest of them - not dealing with half the issues. You could have just posted this in one of the previous threads.
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#5The only problem I have with this article is this line:
"since when does that suddenly mean that you can decide that you are no longer going to pay for products that both legally and morally you are obliged to pay for, yet still use them?"
Legally obliged to pay for? Yes.
Morally? No. I have no moral problem with piracy. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Those are the foundations of my morality. I would love it if people pirated things I made. That's my morality.
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#6It is easier to steal a Twinkie than it is to wait in line and have to pay for it, and then wait for your change. Then you have all those damn coins in your pocket...
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#7My thoughts exactly. You can't force a privately-owned company to sell you the product the way you want it to be sold. It's their right to make money the way they see fit, and if they decide it's okay for them to lose some of the clientele over DRM, it's their choice.
Piracy in the name of protesting against DRM is borderline hypocrisy. As others already said, morality is subjective, but here are two other ways I'd personally support :
- don't use the product,
- pay for the license, pirate the product, get it touch with the company to explain your problem to them.
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#8Hm.. this article is mental slavery.
Also it misses the point that some laws are passed being backed up by well-paid lies. So breaking the law can no longer be any moral issue.
Example: * speed limits * never-ending copyright * exporting cryptography
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#9On morality: given how widespread the piracy is, we probably shouldn't assert that the moral side of the things is obvious here. Regarding the law, that's one way to look at that. Another way is that the role of copyright is about to change, and disobeying the law en masse might be one way to help that change. (Disclaimer: I'm not much of a pirate myself, I have a US iTunes Store account despite living in Russia just…
The morality question isn't necessarily obvious, but the pervasiveness of a particular activity has nothing to do with its morality. Was slavery more morally correct when the majority approved of it, or at least looked the other way? Absolutely not.
Re: Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
#10The author makes a good point, everyone wants to blame someone else and not take responsibility.