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Originally Posted by cherrylula
Historically, Pirates have created industries. They deviate from normal society and find their own ways and means through uncharted ways. They find a loophole, maybe not completely legal, but they challenge the system and run with it. With positive always comes the negative. One really cannot exist without the other. So you have to look at both sides of the coin.
Is stealing ok? No. But piracy "beneficial to mankind as a whole?" Very possible. However a large scale study would have to be done to prove this. 
The internet has brought us a whole new generation of pirates. But pirates they be!
Again, stealing is bad, I do not practice or condone it. But if you think 100% negative toward pirates, well, you're missing out how this adult internet ship even came to sail.
btw - are most of you here too young to remember making casette tapes and VHS tapes? same shit, different media. Its nothing new! |
good post
in most cases what the media calls piracy is really fair use
big media called the VCR piracy
big media called cable television piracy
big media is calling torrents and other peer to peer piracy
the first was ruled to be fair use
the second was determined to have an increase not a decrease to the penetration of their product (tv shows)
p2p can actually be both
companies like the pirate bay push the limits of the law establishing the line between fair use and real copyright infringement.
Without them 2 + trillion dollars in legal "fair use" would not exist.