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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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The reason young people are sharing intellectual property to the extent that they are today, is the same reason most people in this thread can't stop referring to it as "stealing":
It's a very complicated issue.
People who earn back less on investments because of their property being multiplied and distributed outside of their control are completely disconnected with the people who can't figure out the downside of what they are doing by sharing something for free...
Everyone involved should
study the issue.
The problem is that no one tries to explain to teenagers what's really going on with file sharing, and HOW it actually disrupts business. Instead people are talking about bullshit analogies like "stolen cars" and "moral values" which they obviously don't buy... It's like telling them: "drugs are bad" them replying "why?" and cutting them off with "because I fucking say so!"
