Do you admit to filesharing?

[KraGeRzR]

Do you admit to filesharing?

Depends who asks...

IRL I generally discuss it with just about anyone, I just don't really go into details, and being Australian, I doubt it would even matter.

[Artemis]

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The good old days when reading a digital book...

In the "good old days" the Feds didn't raid my house because my paperback copy of I, the Jury didn't somehow find it's way into 425,000 other libraries.
As always abuse of a system leads to it's collapse.

Other than that if you can figure out a way that everyone can have everything they want without having to fairly compensate the people who produce it then please let me know.

It's the 'fairly compensate' bit I object to more than anything else, since with digital media we are talking about copies of the media, which once the production costs are covered generate phenomenal profits. These thousands of percent profit and the fact that companies (not the artists by the way the licence holders) can continue to make these profits for 30 years in the case of music and 70 years in the case of books is profit gouging. Before anyone goes but it is the law, it is a commercial law designed to protect the companies and their phenomenal profits there is nothing 'fair' about it.

[IdolEyes787]

I thought someone would attempt that line of defense but since the cost of my car,my house and the clothes I wear are all reflective of price gouging by mostly unnecessary middle men I'm not seeing an unique target for my righteous indignation here.
Btw I lobbied long and hard for life to be fair too.

[Artemis]

I thought someone would attempt that line of defense but since the cost of my car,my house and the clothes I wear are all reflective of price gouging by mostly unnecessary middle men I'm not seeing an unique target for my righteous indignation here.
Btw I lobbied long and hard for life to be fair too.

Then you can take my filesharing as a fuck you to the fact that the pricing isn't fair, believe me if I could figure out a way to swing my house and car for free I'd be one of the first to do it.

[megabyteme]

I thought someone would attempt that line of defense but since the cost of my car,my house and the clothes I wear are all reflective of price gouging by mostly unnecessary middle men I'm not seeing an unique target for my righteous indignation here.
Btw I lobbied long and hard for life to be fair too.

If any of the companies involved in the transactions you mentioned charged the same percentages, the market would allow for competition to undercut them. The Industries are enjoying the strangle-hold they have on the market. As a result, they are using their vast profits (not for improving their products) into bribing judges, politicians, and criminalizing what should be petty theft- if anything. Also, the artists have been getting ripped off by these same corrupt Industries for decades.

The internet has changed the lines of distribution, and made these distributors of others' work unnecessary. The fight- even at the threat of destroying the entire free internet, is a result of these distributors clinging to the glory days when they controlled access to these medium.

[Quarterquack]

Certainly, many of the professors I have come across in the past few years have had at least articles published (if not more), and may have issues with copyrights being stepped on.

I'm not a professor, although I've been contemplating it as a career path recently. The benefits of being young, eh? Not knowing what to do with the youth. Anyway, I have many many publications and patents (at least applications for now) under my name, and unless someone is clearly using my work to make money, I always encourage them to spread my data and work. Anyone who e-mails me with keywords from my work gets an automated message asking them to spread the word with copies of the documents they reference. Just the same, many professors in esteemed universities do, and there has recently been a movement to abolish journals that's budding among the scientific community. I wouldn't assume that because they have publications that they support copyright. I personally abhor copyright. I'm not pretentious enough to believe I can have an original idea, nor conceited enough to think that any idea should be mine. It may be due to the generation they grew up in.

So, how open are you with real-world people you encounter. Do people talk to you about movies, BT, etc. Or is all of this a dirty little secret you do in your alternate life online?

I'm very open about it. I'm always the person in the room who says "consider it on your computer, you'll find it there tomorrow morning." I don't go into details (eg. ratio of BT to Usenet), nor what I download for leisure (what movies I just got etc.), but it surprises most people right off the bat when they find out my copy of photoshop is pirated for example. I'm a regular music buyer, a regular movie goer (every Tuesday) and have purchased a laudable amount of books. I think what shocks people the most is the "why" not the "what".

[megabyteme]

I'm not pretentious enough

[Night0wl]

I usually don't hide the fact that I download stuff. It's really simple. If you don't want me to download your work, then make it easily available to me at a fair price. And I can't stress "fair price" and "easily available" enough. I don't want to jump through hoops and get robbed to get "legal" access to content.

[hunkytrucker]

I take the view that people should be prepared to pay for 'new creation' . Twenty years on, copyright is just a licence to rip people off.

This is why I enjoyed sharing on RETROFLIX - all the films / tv were over 20 years old.

Perhaps it would be a good move to limit copyright to the first 5 years and during these 5 years , illegal sharing would carry heavy penalties.

After this period, the material would fall into the Public Domain.

[bijoy]

I never hide the fact that I do when asked.

Yeah, but most people you talk to sell crack.