Quote from wilburbear:
I do agree that there is a legal/moral issue here. You have purchased a product that is yours. You now wish to share it with a friend. The hesitation and fear that you feel about this sharing, is the sole creation of the media companies, and the influence they have with lawmakers. Your chains are forged. This is not moral.
Sounds like a pretty convenient analysis. Actually, the hesitation and fear you feel should be the result of the fact that you are about to commit a crime - namely, copyright infringement. It is absolutely wrong, in my view, to say that this is the 'creation of the media companies'. Forgive me for saying so, but it is crystal clear that this point that you have never been a content creator. If you had slaved away in order to create a product and then seen your product illegally copied and disseminated for free, you would be singing a different tune.
You would be aggrieved, not the media companies. You, as the content creator, would be aggrieved.
It is somewhat intellectual dishonesty for you to now claim that copying a piece of copyrighted material and giving it to your friend is the same as posting it on a public website along with a key so that thousands of people can acquire it for free. This attempt shows the flaw in your 'argument', although to be quite honest, I can't really see any proper argument here yet - just assertion.
If you purchase a piece of intellectual property, properly copyrighted, and you copy it and disseminate it, you are committing a crime. There is no way around that. That is what copyright
is. The content creator, has the sole right to
copy it. See?
Copyright.
Quote from wilburbear:But most of all, the media companies, here, have taken the illegal path against this website. Within the last few days they have been caught red-handed in illegal denial of service attacks, and illegal hacking against this website - they were subsequently reported to police, and I believe a lawsuit has been filed. In other words, the lengths to which these people will go to retain control, is now unquestionable, and fully observable to those who want to take note of it.
Retain control of what is legally theirs and is being stolen from them? Errr, yes, I can see that the would go to those lengths. So would you, had you ever seen your work stolen.
Ad nauseam, I am not here to suggest that I am on the litigation bandwagon. I am not. I just find it very distasteful to hear people attempting to skirt the issues in this way.
Do you not see that if I, as a sole creator of a piece of intellectual property, am unable to control the dissemination of that property, then I am not able to make a living by creating the content? Furthermore, do you not agree that this issue is becoming more and more relevant as intellectual property rights are probably the most important aspect of ownership going forward?
