Thursday, November 02, 2006
Millions of people in this day and age surf the net, sharing and disrtibuting information. Now there are those individuals who share and distribute copyrighted software. Now in the article "So you want to be pirate" the arugments of whether the sharing of such information is being a crook as the media would describe or is it "keeping information open and flowing and not under the control of a privileged few, we are enhancing democracy and freedom of the market place. "
Now those there is a difference between the bootlergers who copy the miles of music and movies or what ever program they download and use it for their own profitable gain. "Pirates" are not after profit, the whole process works in a "you give a little to get a little"exchange of information. So why do people look at pirates in a negative way, is what their doing stealing? An excellent point is brought up in the article. What seems to be the difference from zeroxing a few pages from a library and downloading music.
Now those there is a difference between the bootlergers who copy the miles of music and movies or what ever program they download and use it for their own profitable gain. "Pirates" are not after profit, the whole process works in a "you give a little to get a little"exchange of information. So why do people look at pirates in a negative way, is what their doing stealing? An excellent point is brought up in the article. What seems to be the difference from zeroxing a few pages from a library and downloading music.
The software industry is unlikely to acknowledge (or even recognize) the
contributions of pirates to their enterprise, and continue to view us as "the
enemy!"
