This is why piracy will be hard to stop.
its shocked me how many people don’t use torrents o:i thought everyone did these days :’) hahaa.i don’t honestly know what i would do without torrents.
they save SO much money!
I know talking about the negative impact of piracy on the internet is like talking about the negative impact of steroids at a World’s Strongest Man Competition, but I just can’t help it. Right now this is a “Popular Stuff” entry at tumblr. It’s a seventeen-year-old girl called “poynterlubs” talking about how shocked she is that more people don’t use torrents to download music, because they save so much money.
Of course, this happens every day. It’s the culture we live in today. People download things for free because it saves them money, and they don’t really think of it as stealing.
But here’s where it gets interesting. On “poynterlubs” blog, she also says the following two things in the “about” section at the top of every page of the site:
- “i aspire to be a photographer for bands, whether it be proper photoshoots or a set from a gig.”
- “i’ve had photos stolen by people in the past, with them claiming to have taken the picture. that’s why i tag my photos.”
So… She wants to work in the same industry that she is openly stealing from. She also complains about other people stealing her creative work, and how much it bothers her.
Really “poynterlubs” should be one of the good guys. She should realize that piracy does no help to the bands that she aspires to photograph. She should realize that other people put a lot of time, effort, soul, and yes-also-money into the creation of that creative work. But she either doesn’t think of it that way, or doesn’t care.
That’s why piracy will be hard to stop. Because it’s just become part of the fabric of life for my generation and the generations younger than me. The bizarre justifications for piracy have become so repeated for so long that people have started to think they’re actually morally and ethically right to be pirating artistic content.
“poynterlubs”, if you are reading this, I would love to know the ethical thought process that leads you to pirate music, to blog about how much you like pirating music, and then to also to want to work in the music industry and to not have your own content stolen.
via poynterlubz