Comments on: Is Music Piracy Stealing?

By: orhun

orhun — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:24:52 +0000

Yes I do believe that a goverment cannot be elected without powerful people(who has powerful companies as well) behind them. About the law, I see it a bit different than “tougher laws, more people in jail” theory. I think the reason behind it is that with tougher laws simply more people will be frightened and without anyone to upload them on the internet(because either they will be in jail or frightened to upload) pirated music cannot be easily found so more people going to buy the original.

By: jo

jo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:19:03 +0000

So are you arguing that big media companies- Sony etc. are behind the government’s being elected and then the government then gives something back to these big media companies? But in what way do or would the companies benefit by these people being put in jail which is what the author points out would be the result of the latest draconian legislation- the more people in jail, the less people earning money, the less people earning money means less consumers to consume their products- music, films, books (remember that these companies do not just own music production facilities but are major conglomerates these days).
I agree though with your last point about the necessary incursion into people’s freedom in order to carry out such legislation- such incursions should not and can not be tolerated.

By: ahmet

ahmet — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:54:49 +0000

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