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Media rights.. and wrongs?
Ok... I was going to try to recap, but I give up... the best I can come up
with is that we all mostly admit to, in one way or another, taking music that
we haven't paid for, we just vary in which cases we think it is or isn't
stealing.
Fair enough. It's a mire, no doubt, and I certainly have no right to judge
anyone.
I have only two, no three, questions to add:
1) Is a 'victimless' crime still a crime? Should it be? Should we have laws
based on principles like intellectual property, or should it only apply in
cases where someone genuinely lost profits? (This probably applies more to
artwork than music, although there are parallels between stock art companies
who sell royalty free or rights protected images and the record labels who
sell CDs and tapes...)
2) In reference to the "well, if I like it I'll buy it later" bit... does
that work for software piracy, too? Is it ok to 'demo' warez before shelling
out the cash? What if it's an old version the company no longer sells
anyway? What if it's shareware?
3) If you illegally acquire a copy of a work, and then go buy the original
and consider it therefore ok, isn't that just a perfect example of trying to
claim that the ends justify the means? And what about the opposite:
"They're not losing anything! I'd never pay good money for it in any case, so
what difference does it make if I take it for free?"
Just pondering... I'm not sure at all where I stand on these things myself.
I try to do what seems right and fair, but I can't say I always think that
aligns with what's technically legal, so.... ?
Anita
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