Copyright etc
I can't agree with this .You might believe that copying a software programme is on a par with stealing a car (I don't for the simple and obvious reason that when you steal a car the person who uses it can no longer, but when you copy a programme they can; if I could clone your car you might be a bit miffed but you probably wouldn't think it quite as bad as if I stole it) but you can't come out with stuff like this:
Downloading an unlicensed song doesn't feel like theft in the way that taking a CD from a shop does and very few young people are convinced by the music industry's increasingly desperate rhetoric. But we may be able to persuade the next generation of net users that installing a stolen program is different.
It doesn't, but neither does copying a piece of software feel like breaking into Adobe's headquarters and spiriting off their code. It's the same thing. Some people spend years on albums. Some people don't spend years programming (others do, of course).
posted by Matthew @ 6/02/2006 06:23:00 PM
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