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Originally Posted by timewarrior2001
Yet Piracy isnt new.
As a kid I regularly Taped the top 10 off the radio.
I taped computer games, I taped the NOW albums off my friends on both vinyl and CD.
The difference now is that its much easier to do. I don think that it is as big a problem as record comapnies would have us belive and the RIAA is harming them by its actions.
Alienating the people you want to buy your product isnt the best way to get them to do so and walk away from Piracy.
The bottom line is that piracy can not and will not ever be stopped.
Whether you view it as right or wrong I doubt many people at some point in their lives have NEVER commited an act of piracy or watched a pirated movie etc.
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Piracy isn't new, but I would think that only a very small percentage of people have engaged in piracy or watched a pirated movie.
There are millions of pirated copies of films and music tracks, but I would like to bet that a large percentage of them are never watched or listened to. They have just been downloaded because it was easy to do so and had the thrill of getting something for nothing with little likelyhood of being caught.
Can piracy ever be stopped? Who knows what methods may become available to cut down dramatically the possibility of copying music and films. The more that it can be cut down, the more the chance that the industry will clamp down on the ones that continue to break the law. How many people will continue to risk having a large fine, their computing equipment seized and destroyed and getting a criminal record for downloading / uploading things that they never watch, listen to or use?