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Originally Posted by kane
What amazes me is the lengths that people will go to just to save a few dollars. My brother's son has downloaded a ton of music illegally. In the process of doing so he got their computer so infected with spyware and viruses that it took me three hours to get it working right again. So I am talking to my brother and explaining that this could turn out bad if the boy gets caught. My brother agrees, but his son and my brother's wife are both fully convinced that since it is available to download it is free and they are not doing anything illegal.
So I block a bunch of the sites that they use to download stuff and the boy spends hours trying to find new sites to download from. I tell him about Spotify and Pandora and some other free music sites or even sites you can pay a few dollars for and get unlimited music and it was like I had asked him to spend a million dollars. He would rather spend hours trying to hunt down the songs he wants than pay a few dollars a month or even use a legit free music service. When I mentioned he could just buy them at 99cents per song it was almost like I had insulted him. It is a strange mentality.
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Im afraid is a culture thing specially amongst the younger generation I had the exact same thing with my two kids, All thier freinds at school used to do it so they just followed, but what did suprise me was just how much they knew to get the rips. Now they are both adults they have both stopped doing it and my daughter now pays for music from Itunes, but like i said in my other post it wouldent suprise me if my son and all of his mates are now doing the same thing with porn. Its going to be very hard to change society about the way they think its thier right to take what they want from the internet whithout paying for it.