Comments | imaginecreate: FACT vs. Fact

imaginecreate

FACT vs. Fact

Feb 12, 2010 12:00

For anyone that doesn't pay attention to the trials, media and farce that is occulted from major media perspectives, there's this thing called piracy that is making international waves. In the UK, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) recently lost a case against a site called TVLinks. More about this hereThere's lots of people out there ( Read more... )

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jazzsax February 12 2010, 20:58:09 UTC

This is like arguing with someone in the special olympics. Pointless.

If ONE, and ONLY ONE person ends up not buying a ticket because they downloaded the torrent on the internet, profit is reduced. Yes, it's theft.

Piracy is wrong, plain and simple. If people have an issue with piracy, they should write their software as freeware, or open source.

imaginecreate February 12 2010, 21:54:56 UTC

I'm not saying piracy is necessarily wrong or right. Studies on piracy prove both sides of the argument. I think it's one of those weird things that can be seen from many different angles, and they all be equally true and equally false. I downloaded Avatar to watch with my son because I can't afford to take him. After having seen it in the living room, I'm going to take him to the movie. That sort of thing apparently happens a lot ( ... )