02-12-2012, 04:32 AM
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Location: Oakland, CA
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Here's something I posted on BGR in their story about Tribler:
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Please clarify something I've been wanting to know for a long time now; At what point, exactly, does a company's profits become "greed"? I don't want to be greedy, but I do run a business for the sake of making money. I want to make sure I don't exceed that limit, and end up in the cross hairs of people labeling me as such... and then pirating everything I've ever created. If you can sense some sarcasm, you aren't mistaken. I've observed enough dialogue on this subject to discern that making any amount of money is considered "greed", and we can go round and round with the subjective definition. There is a growing movement towards trying to stop that from happening. If people want to continue to take away my financial motivation, people like myself won't have any inclination to continue creating content. That's the bottom line.
And to answer your question, people pirate content because they think "if it exists on the internet, it should be free." It's the "everyone's doing it" group-think mentality, and the "I don't know who I'm hurting, I don't know who they are" far-removed distance factor. There's also the "these people make MILLIONS, I'm not hurting them" self-entitled mentality. Let's not forget the "I pay Comcast $120 a month for 25 megabits so that gives me the right to download whatever I want" factor. And the "yeah, people get sued but it couldn't ever happen to me" factor. And then there's the displacement of responsibility "I'm not the one that uploaded it so I'm not the one who will get in trouble" factor. Oh and the "it's digital so it's not considered 'stealing'..." factor. People have a million justifications for stealing... and all of them are unique. None of them are justified.
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