Coming back after a long time with a very thought about topic. Well. yeh I say "a long time" every single time because I just don't get time to get the new stuff on.
Back to the topic. "Getting Illegal - Copy"wrong" Violation". Hey, what does this sound like. We teens doing illegal stuff, definitely not! But well, YES.
We all on this Earth, especially teens do all the Illegal stuff possible. Well I'm not talking about smoking, drinking, drugs etc. (all that is more or less legal now!), I'm referring to the other dimension of this aspect.
Don't we all download MP3s from the net and P2Ps knowing that downloading music is illegal? We dump the efforts of the artistes in vain. We preach the musicians like Gods, yet don't purchase their best compositions and your favourite hits. Don't we all photocopy text-books, guides and other books for leisure? Knowing that its just going to hamper the revenue of the authors and Publishers? Don't we download $500 softwares from the internet and crack them immediately easily ruining the companies profits on a predictable multi-millionairre softare? And yeah, not to forget, don't we all use our brilliant CD-Writers and DVD-Combos and rip the hell out of CD's which read "Don't Copy me"? Don't we all buy fake and theatre-prints of movies expecting a massive turnover and display them in large groups even when they are restricted from public viewing?
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the Mp3 music industry is worth 5 billion dollars..dats what a newspaper said which i read with musch intrest....its nto that the musicians etc dnt get thier share of the money...they are worried about thier EXTRA share of money....lets take for eg. a KANK music....it wus available on net the very next day of its release...but still people went and bought the original cd's and audi cassette's..y?...wel i dnt hav an answer for that...frankly..btu jus wanna say that the music directors earned 2 crores each(SHANKAR-EHSAAN-LOY)..while da singers got 10 lakhs per song sung....so they made thier money..de do nto complain..now al this money is put in by the producers...from the sale of cd's and cassette's the producer made 50 lakhs...but of coz it cudnt go more..becoz a a handfull portion wuz available on the net..but still.. in india majrity dnt have Mp3's liek we guys "must" have....so dey go buy to lisen in thier car or wateva....so the producers make thier buisness...wat online downloads harm da maker of music is dat it cuts down on thier extra earning..so no loss as such
textbooks...i dnt think much prob..coz only 3% or so student will do dat dat to coz they would hav lost the book or sumthin...and i would naturally prefer gettgn a new one coz mass photocopies are expensive then da original ones....now electronic copies of novels and other such matter is wrong coz thats one area ware the income is directed to da author so we deny thier earning..that is y many famous authors are still not Very rich
its is like an unecceasary law being broken...so no1 really cares...and nothin wrng in it 2
P.S hu buys theatre print movies??....its worthless and useless!!!!! it spoils da fun
First of all there is nothing like an unnecessary law, a law is a law and just because you dont get caught doesn't mean you aren't doing anything wrong. There is nothing as "EXTRA" share of money, either there is everything or you are stealing a part of it, I don't really get what you mean by "EXTRA". Law's are part of a civilized world, I think varun is right in saying that all of us are indeed criminals and if it weren't for the lousy law keepers in the third world countries, most of you would have been caught by now.
For eg: Imagin (amreen_sep22) releases a music album and all of us would download it for free, would you like it?. Think in that prospective.
I am rather very happy to find such a soul-searching topic posted in this section. It is the question against the attitude,"When all are doing it, why not I?". It is not only in these items listed by the web master, but also in many aspects of daily life, we come across situations, when we tend to take the side of the "wrong-violation". To add fuel to the fire, we also tend to make it happen and justify as if nothing had come about wrong in doing so.
No wonder, we have members of Parliament, who smuggle persons in the garb of his wife and kid.
"Getting awakened" and becoming aware of what we are doing wrong is itself a correct attitude for the begining. Let such tribe flourish.
I'm sure rock stars and their motley company do receive enough financing to live and prosper, it's not like they're starving or sitting homeless. To those of us who cannot afford to buy a OMR4 cd just to hear a punk scream (although we like it) doesn't sound like a good proposition to me for a middle-class family. Downloading it off the internet seems no problem to me at all. If it really does bother the economic stability of musicians and the like, then I would suggest that the prices of music records be lessened to at least half their current price, so as to increase affordability and (by extension) popularity. I would apply that to the realm of software as well. That's about the economic issues.
Now let's take up the case of legal issues, which is mainly a means considering the economic issues. Credit is to be given to a musician, without doubt. However, this only means that if someone copies his creation without his consent, the person found copying will be subject to judicial force. This can also imply that he deserve royalty.
About the opinion, "we are criminals": Surely, if the downloads we perform are not in compliance with the laws of the country, we are criminals (as per definition). However, there are myriad ways of grading criminals, hence we can't be equated to, say, thiefs or rapists or murderers. I believe the tag criminal itself is such a broad concept that it is often misapplied. But who in their right mind cares about "criminals" like us? We are completely harmless (if you compare it to Al-Qaeda, which poses a threat greater beyond imagination).
And, as manirvs pointed out so correctly, the real criminals behind all the criminals is the government itself, because it has allowed the criminals to do whatever the hell they want. Politicians Bastards don't care about the people's welfare anyway. You have to just erode the root, not the leaf, to remove the corrupt tree of the modern Indian government.
Good topic......act i nw find guilty 2 dwnload muzic frm internet....ok i'l try 2 stop it.....though i think i cant....abt d piratd cds.....itz really bad.....ppl shud nt buy it.........
