It is amazing the "everything is free" culture of the Millenials and even more amazing the excuses they come up with to justify "everything is free." All a part of their entitlement fixation too. Thank their helicopter parents for empowering them with that little dysfunction.
My younger brother has 5 kids. They are a devoutly religious family with a big painting of the Ten Commandments on their living room wall. Including the "Thou Shalt Not Steal" one.
One day I was visiting and they mentioned they were having computer problems. I'm an IT professional so volunteered to take a look. When I started glancing through their files I found an insane amount of torrented material. Games, movies, music and software. Close to a terabyte's worth. I pointed this out to my brother and said, "you know all of these downloads are illegal." And he acted mildly surprised. His response was, "the kids told me they got it off the internet and you know the internet - everything is free." I told him, "when you guys go to WalMart on your weekly shopping spree and you see these items on the shelves, are they free?" He just shrugged his shoulders and walked away - obviously, it wasn't important to him.
So there you go - you have this generation who believe that torrenting is a perfectly legitimate practice combined with parents who have no idea it's going on, nor do they care if they do know.
I'll be curious to see when these Millenials have their own kids, how they're going to handle the topic of theft in raising their own kids.
thou shall not replicate, it seems to come down to philosphy of which your brothers would imply it is wrong, I agree with you, there is no reason to steal entertainment
"We live in a democracy, a prerequisite of which is freedom of information. Knowledge is power. When information becomes the province of the rich and is unaffordable to the poor there can only be sham democracy. Information must be free to all, no ifs, no buts."
Since when is entertainment consider the same as information, like news? It is entertainment pure and simple, candy for the brain. Following your logic the public should have free access to the Walking Dead or Game of Thrones to be better informed. Informed of what which character just go killed off.
yup yup, you could argue some entertainment enlightens the mind, but that is just an extremist point of view, I seem to be the minority who admits its wrong and still does it, it is odd how uncommon within the pirate community, I mean people don't like eat fast food then try to convince others its good for them, it reminds me of a heavy drug users mentality, denial. I could philosophy it up and argue for piracy but you can do that with any topic and the more unknowns you use to justify your point the more likely it is that you are wrong.
people feed their families making entertainment, you don't NEED entertainment, they need to feed their families, not everyone in the entertainment industry is rich, what about the factory worker who makes DVD's or stand in actor in the back ground waiting tables?
what I said earlier was to provoke a different perspective to a broken record set of responses we see every time any piralosphy article is written
lobbying is also wrong but that does not make stealing right and as stated not everyone making entertainment has anything to do with the wrongs of the big wigs, cliche time 2 wrongs dont make a right
p.s. this shouldn't have to be said but no one is forcing you to buy entertainment, the high priced argument is not wise. its not a necessity, it is practically the opposite