Piracy of softwares & movies is justified or not? - Page 3

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

Regarding this one point: Napster could be brought down because it was still somewhat centralized. Bring down the core and everything comes down. These days the trend is to become more and more decentralized. For example, from needing just the tracker to not even needing the tracker and even more.

Its basically about who stays in the front. Piracy has always been in the front.

I always support music piracy because I think it is a way of sticking it to major record label companies, that are super exploitative. People always support the artists that truly reach out to them, and so I don't think that's a problem. Nobody is exactly complaining that Britney Spears might be making one less million a year. Well, Sony might be, or whatever record company ruins her life at the moment (like they did to Michael Jackson), but not my concern.

Micro-"global domination"-soft and its shitty software I will not pay for. Same for Adobe and Apple. There is a difference between supporting software makers for their labour, ideas and useful products, and supporting companies that come out with software with the sole intent of making profit. Do we really need iTunes?

But I do support independent software available on the internet. And when people add a note asking for some support through paypal, I give what I reasonably can - sometimes it's just $10 or $20, but it's to compensate the person for putting it out there. A huge corporation doesn't exactly need my support to move their shares up in the market.

Also, forget paying for bollywood and most hollywood movies. They should be paying me to watch most of the same old rehashed stuff. Think of how many of my brain cells I would've lost.