Piracy. Everyone's done it. There are very few people in this world that can say that they've never donned their swashbuckling hat and waved their cursors around to ravage the internet and plunder the profits of the big record corporations.
But where do we actually get our pirated things from?
Perhaps our 'piracy' is actually more of a mob activity. After all, most people these days are familiar with torrents and other peer-to-peer networks. And what is downloading music from one of these networks if not organized crime?
Personally, I think that the negative hype about piracy is overrated. After all, the artists don't get their money from their record sales. They get their money from their endorsements and all of the other advertisements and such. The only people we're 'stealing' from are the profit hungry corporations, and frankly, I don't see a problem with that.
No comments:
Post a Comment