Morals of Downloading
When downloading using protocols such as BitTorrent and Gnutella I adopted some rules to ensure that what I am doing is justified in my own mind and morally right:
Music
- If we didn’t download music we’d still be taping it of the radio anyway.
- Most artists don’t care about you downloading their music, they are usually quite flattered by it.
- If you like the music, go and see the artist at a show, buy their merchandise or give them money directly.
- If you like the record label, buy the god damn record.
- People make music because they enjoy it, not because they want to get rich.
- However, nothing is quite like owning the record on vinyl or even CD.
TV Shows
- We watch your adverts and pay our license fees, does it matter if we watch it now or later?
- If we didn’t download or stream them, we’d just record them on VHS anyway…
- Even TV channels themselves are offering the ability to watch them online now.
- If you like something enough, buy it on DVD.
Films
- Watching a film at the cinema is no comparison to watching it at home.
- The less we go to the the cinema the more the prices for tickets will be, which SUCKS.
- If you like films, pay the price, support the company that creates them.
- If you do not pay for films, they will simply not make as many good films due to a lack of budget.
- If you like a film, buy it on DVD, don’t download it.
- Independent film companies don’t have the same funding as large corporations and therefore cannot make films on the same scale.
Software
- In many cases, software is created as a solution to a problem, if you don’t make it, someone else will.
- Would you find alternative open source or free software if you were forced to pay for the software you use?
- Would you develop (or invest in) your own solution if you were forced to pay?
- If you like the software and cannot live without it, pay for it.
- If you are happy to use open source or free alternatives, use them.
Books
- Reading an entire book on your computer screen? Seriously? That’s just dumb.
- So you’re really going to print that off and bind it? Just buy the damn book!
- Having said that there’s plenty of websites out there you can read for free instead. Try those.
Please note: I neither encourage nor disapprove of downloading illegally.
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adnan said,
August 21, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
LOL,
never thought of it as like that;
philospoical phinkher arnrt you:)