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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Younger people are thinking they have invented the idea of some Utopian society where everyone just trades things and people do it for the love of doing it and not the money it makes. They think it is a new idea, they think it is something that their generation came up with.
I blame current piracy issues on our schools and very piss poor parents, not the technology. For example: for the longest time this farmer had a fruit/vegetable and egg stand on his property. It was self service from a small building with no workers in it. All payments were purely on the honor system. Everyone pretty much paid and hell even when I was short a few times, the next time I stopped by I would leave extra. Nobody it seemed took advantage, stole product, or even took extra change - whatever. We all were interested in access to the great products at a very inexpensive rate. Well about a year and a half ago the farmer started to have problems with kids stealing the money and just taking food without paying for it. Some even started to just vandalize it or take food and destroy it. The farmer tried a lock box for the cash and eventually just gave up and now you can only buy by appointment, even with an appointment there is now less variety of products.
The ability to steal it was always there, had been apparently since he first started this like decades ago. Never had theft problems until recently. Really just seems like some of the youth today just have different mind sets and do not give a shit about right or wrong, nor if it may deprive others as long as they get what they want for themselves.
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What's with the lame real world analogies? You can hardly compare the plight of the farmer to people making billions of $ per year. There are many reasons why people download and many ways in which they compensate, via transactions on iTunes to concerts and merchandise. Not everyone is just stealing, there are so many factors to this you can't just pin it down and say "right, everyone that downloads this is not going to buy or view it with money", "this person d/led this album and will not buy the product", "this person watched the streaming movie and will not buy the blu-ray or dvd", etc, etc. I'm sure in some roundabout way, past or present the numbers add up enough for the heads to cop their Bentleys and give themselves their little 2 million $ bonuses. Nobody is really getting hurt here. They do need to adapt and push forward with better sources and models though, but for the most part this isn't a square peg you can push through a square hole because it's just not that simple, not everyone is leeching.