http://cashintellect.com/2006/10/03/us-losing-205-billion-to-movie-pirates/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:33:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://cashintellect.com/2006/10/03/us-losing-205-billion-to-movie-pirates/#comment-47 David Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:29:33 +0000 http://cashintellect.com/2006/10/03/us-losing-205-billion-to-movie-pirates/#comment-47 The pirating of anything, whether movies, music, or whatever, often comes down to getting back some of what consumers feel they are owed. Take music for example: I bought an artist's LP, then I had to re-buy on tape, then I had to re-but on CD! Why am I having to pay three times for the same songs? Then on top of that the music industry does not want me to do with my purchase as I see fit. If I let another person copy my music they say I'm breaking the law. Now, if they had replaced my LPs with tape for a nominal price, or my tapes with CDs for anominal price to cover the cost of the medium and the labour to reproduce, that is fair. But triple buying of the same music - that is not fair. Intellectual property rights? I don't know. When a person buys a newspaper and more than one person reads it are inteleectual property rights being violated? I don't see the difference between multiple readers of a one copy of a newspaper, and multiple users of a CD or movie. It seems like just a big cash grab by big business. My two cents anyway. The pirating of anything, whether movies, music, or whatever, often comes down to getting back some of what consumers feel they are owed. Take music for example: I bought an artist’s LP, then I had to re-buy on tape, then I had to re-but on CD! Why am I having to pay three times for the same songs? Then on top of that the music industry does not want me to do with my purchase as I see fit. If I let another person copy my music they say I’m breaking the law. Now, if they had replaced my LPs with tape for a nominal price, or my tapes with CDs for anominal price to cover the cost of the medium and the labour to reproduce, that is fair. But triple buying of the same music - that is not fair. Intellectual property rights? I don’t know. When a person buys a newspaper and more than one person reads it are inteleectual property rights being violated? I don’t see the difference between multiple readers of a one copy of a newspaper, and multiple users of a CD or movie. It seems like just a big cash grab by big business. My two cents anyway.

]]> http://cashintellect.com/2006/10/03/us-losing-205-billion-to-movie-pirates/#comment-61 Brian Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:27:49 +0000 http://cashintellect.com/2006/10/03/us-losing-205-billion-to-movie-pirates/#comment-61 Thanks for your comments David. I particularly like the reference to newspapers, we've all shared reading newspapers, so by sharing I guess we're committing piracy in the eyes of the media, what a bunch of crap. As long as there's money at stake, there will always be an issue for the media. Thanks for your comments David. I particularly like the reference to newspapers, we’ve all shared reading newspapers, so by sharing I guess we’re committing piracy in the eyes of the media, what a bunch of crap. As long as there’s money at stake, there will always be an issue for the media.

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