When a new music is out, or maybe a new app, and we're all excited to get to listen to it or launch it to see what new stuff is there
to experience.
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When a new music is out, or maybe a new app,
and we're all excited to get to listen to it or launch it
to see what new stuff is there to experience.
But, there is this sense of disappointment that we
suddenly feel when we get to discover that we have to throw in a few
coin to experience whatever it is that's in there.
While some people would freely or reluctantly go ahead to simply
purchase it (sometimes out of curiosity), a large number of us prefer
to wait till that certain item is free.
Meanwhile, some would prefer going on a relentless search to get it,
which usually end us up on pirates sites (if that item is digital).
And there is this debate online on whether piracy should really be
consider wrong or unethical, even illegal.
But, first..
What is "Piracy"?
According to the Oxford dictionary app on my phone, piracy is "the act
of making illegal copies of video tapes, computer programs, books,
etc., in order to sell them"
In a more generic definition, piracy is simply the unauthorized
duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.
On a forum, I brought up a topic on how you feel about data piracy as
a US citizens. A lot of individuals voiced out their opinions, which
majority of it was that, piracy shouldn't be illegal. Majority of the
comments were harmonious to one another, each disagreeing on the law
against piracy.
One of them comment went as thus, "..In the UK, it is illegal to die
in the Houses of Parliament. It is also illegal to eat mince pies on
Christmas day. Are these unethical? NO!"
From the paragraph above it's obvious that this citizens and a lot of
US citizens are not comfortable with the law against piracy of data.
Being informal, personally, I kinda agree with them too. Take for
instance, you bought a CD, and a friend comes to borrow it from you,
using the same logic, that's another form of piracy.
Your friend didn't have to pay for it, just as you did.
Many pirates have the mentality that artists should feel grateful or
thankful that someone is listening to their music, and it doesn’t hurt
anyone because it’s just music.
In summary.. Whether you do or should feel guilty, I think, it all
boils down to your own personal sense of what you define as right and
wrong. To many people, the word integrity would come to mind.
But it's now understandable, why a whole lot of US citizens feel that
the law enforcing against piracy is just too unnecessary.
