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New Yorkers speak out on file-sharing scandal
Published: 19 April, 2009, 10:25
TAGS: Crime, SciTech, The Resident
This week has seen staff from the Pirate Bay file-sharing website sent to jail. Many web users still don’t know which side to take. Online journalist Lori ‘The Resident’ Harfenist asked New Yorkers what they think.
19.04.2009, 06:00
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The music industry has no right to follow me throughout my life and pay them. When I buy a CD what is on that CD belongs to me. I will lend it. sell it, or share it. When I pay 20 dollars for a CD it belongs to me, period. The music industry gets their 20 dollars however I cannot claim that I wrote the music, only that I purchased it. Filr sharing is good for the music industry, but when they want to control my life they are acting like crimminals. I also download music for free on the internet and will always do so. When I find something I like, I will go and purchase it. The music industry needs to learn that they are being paid enough. For instance one song can net 50 million dollars and that is robbery and they know that but if they can get away with it they will try to collect money for thousands of years.
I agree with Mr. Hersanko. There is no controversy among the common people; everyone who's not a software millionaire (or billionaire) thinks that torrent sharing is perfectly moral. The only people against it are the huge corporations who only want to gouge us, and for what reason? None but to satisfy their own greed. I don't know about you, but I am a poor college student who works hard at two shit jobs. Still it seems that I am gouged on everything, gas, housing, actual food (not top-ramen), and when the new semester comes around -oh my God- tuition always goes up a little more every year, I spend 3-600$ on books and if the class has a computer aspect (which many do since my major is Applied Mathematics), I have to buy software that is sold for upwards of $300, but only worth about $50. Luckily, with sites like the pirate bay, I can save myself a few bucks and download a torrent. To be honest, I don't think the companies hurt that much about it either; people don't realize that torrent sharing is a fairly complicated process for those who are not computer experts, so those people who don't know how, or don't feel comfortable with it for whatever reason, buy the software from the manufacturer for the ridiculous price, and the company makes its dollars off of them. Not giving in to corporate greed is NOT illegal, is NOT immoral, and should NOT be looked down upon. I think it is sad that the police and justice system waste their time on this when there are so many other problems they could be handling. To sum up my argument: Go F#@K yourselves you corporate goons, and take your bullsh*t case with you!