Now I mean by inviting them over to watch a movie you bought or listen to a CD. You could even have them come over to play a computer game with you. Now what if you want share something that you payed for but have them be at their own house? Is it suddenly against the law because it is in another house? What If I just built a giant 500 by 500 mile house. Would it then be illegal to share songs between rooms? People create this music and these movies knowing they will be pirated. It does not come to them as a suprise. Isn't it also legal to lend someone a DVD or VHS or a movie? You could do the same with a music CD you payed for. So why can't you do this online? Instead of being on a tape or dvd it is on a hard drive.
It is actually quite funny. The only reason this can happen is because of this digital revolution. Before this pirating would literally be stealing. I mean people would be taking a product away from someone that they cannot infinitely reproduce as we can today. As for software pirating, that will go away in time. Eventually all products will require a constant online connection to work. (steam for one...) You could probably say the same about any other type of media.
Now lets slightly change topic. How about those movies and songs that are made? Look at movies for a moment. How much to actors get payed? Lets not forget all those overpayed people who sit at desks pretending to work. The (top) actors are getting millions of dollars a movie. The executives are getting up to millions of dollars a year for hardly any work. I have a better idea to fix piracy. Lets stop over paying all of these people. I bet if they did this they could sell their products for 60% less and still make the same profit. Do these people really diserve millions of dollars for a years worth of work? If anyone diserves that kind of money it is refuge workers and janitors. Their work is by far harder.
Like many people I still buy games and movies. If it was not for this 1% of the population owning 98% of the wealth I don't think things like this would be a problem. So now does this make piracy okay? I guess it depends on who it is being taken from. The problem with this is that the people that are really affected by this are the crew and other workers that don't make the bulk of it. I would love to just say anyone making over X dollar amount needs to be killed, but then that would not be fair, would it? They are after all killing people every day. Think about all those poor who die of starvation and other similar means. I mean if you suddenly won millions of dollars or got into a job paying you a lot you would not do this. I would not either. I guess what I would really love to see if a government enforced maximim wage. There is a minimum one, why not a max one? You could even have it be something like 100k a year. That is plenty enough for anyone. That is also what I believe to be the most anyone diserves. It is just, the way things are going, things will only get worse. Karl marx saw this coming. Something will have to change.
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