Uh, WTF is digital theft? Well if it's stealing the developers hard drive... F*** that's evil! HTF is making a copy of software even remotely the same as stealing a developers hard drive???😕😡
It's people like you who make congress pass terrible overkill laws like the DMCA because they think robbing someone (theft) is the same as making a copy.😡 You are the type of people who support the RIAA bypassing due process because of all of the "stealing" going on.
Copyright infringement ( != theft) is a fairly lightweight crime. It's about the same as smoking weed. Show me a developer that is suffering because people widely pirate his app and I'll stop doing it.
I say that if you are rich, pay for a copy, if not, then pirate (arrrrrghh me matey) until you get a decent paying job.
Wow. This is about the dumbest thing I have ever read.
First of all, I *DO NOT* agree with the copy protections and DRM and the way the RIAA goes after people. In fact, if the RIAA were to get blown up with everyone inside tomorrow, I'd be roasting marshmallows in the flames. But they do this simply because there are so many people stealing the work. If people would stop being so crappy, maybe the media companies would be as well.
Reading through some other threads of people who have entire terabyte hard drives filled with movies and music (and many of them blatantly say that they torrent them instead of buying them), you can see where the artists and companies are coming from.
And your argument is that because you don't have a decent-paying job, you deserve to get the stuff for free? Others say that it's a victimless crime because the stuff that is pirated would never have been bought in the first place. While this may be true to an extent, to say that those aforementioned people with bulging hard drives of media wouldn't have bought any of it is ludicrous.
But it's hard to say where to draw the line. I roll my eyes every time the media companies have a skit or a part of a TV show pulled off of YouTube due to copyright infringement. If it weren't for seeing clips on YouTube, there are some shows I never would have started watching. Family Guy and SNL to name a couple. And I don't know who would want to watch a YouTube version of a movie anyway.
I generally don't support any musicians or media which impose harsh restrictions on their audience. The music I listen to is generally from the artists who allow taping of their shows and free distribution of those shows. In fact, by their rules, it's illegal to sell their bootlegged stuff...it has to be free. And they do well enough. And thus I always pay for their studio albums when they put one out, and always hit their concerts and buy a shirt or something. If more artists and media companies would be like that, I think it would change the ballgame in a major way.
