Do You Guys Really Care???

[GroobyKrissy]

Originally Posted by TS_aficionado

@GroobyKrissy:

It's hard to agree with you seeing this vicious RIAA (and MPAA) campaign. This maniacal rampage made a lot of people (myself included) rethink the idea of paying for anything at all online, not just music and movies.

Vicious?

I don't think you can compare the TS Industry with the campaigns of the record executives... two completely different industries with VAST differences in property.

However... property rights should be observed and respected in any case. Like I stated earlier, you don't go around stealing gasoline just because you think the price is unfair or you don't walk into a store and steal a suit even though you know it probably cost the store a fraction of the price. You just don't. Why? Maybe because you're scared of prosecution, or being caught, or it's a personal moral decision.

Theft is theft. For some reason, the same person that would never go on a shoplifting spree thinks nothing of downloading an entire site's content and reposting it somewhere else for others to use. That is theft, it is illegal, and people should be prosecuted for it. Many people think that they'll never be caught or if they are, nothing will happen. This is changing rapidly and more and more people are seeing the consequences of their KNOWING actions. Almost all sites record IP Addresses now and local authorities are become more and more helpful in stopping online copyright infringements.

I'm not saying I agree with prosecuting a 15 year old kid who is downloading songs or a mother with children who claims not to have known better BUT... I think you would have a completely different point of view if it was your livelihood that was being whittled away by people stealing and reposting your content.

Are you saying that people shouldn't have the right to protect their copyrighted material?