Comments on: Copyrighted Filesharing Will Never Die | It May Be Illegal But People Don’t Think It’s Wrong

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:00:52 +0000

Kristen, since when is file sharing insulting the artists? If it wasn’t for file sharing, you would have half as many viewers or supporters. Technology and society has changed, and the copyright law also has to. The copyright law was first made and enforced in the stone age when there was no printing press. Books and works were unable to be copied and were locked up and protected by the law. When the printing press was invented, almost anyone could copy books. There were pirates back then! The copyright law changed and evolved to fit the circumstances and society. Instead of the copyright owners changing their view and accepting change, they are trying to gain more power and control every little thing that happens to their intellectual property. The law was made for things that are physical and concrete, not virtual.

The right thing to do for the copyright owners is to accept today’s technology and adjust the law and the restrictions. It will never go away.

By: Jeppe Nielsen

Jeppe Nielsen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:05:40 +0000

I just hate it when people call pirating for stealing… check the laws… stealing is removal of PHYSICAL property, not copying Digital property… there’s a difference cause the digital original does not dissappear!

When that is said, laws should allways represent the view of the majority, because if they don’t then what’s the purpose of democracy??

Pirating will become legal, it’s just a matter of time, unless people opinion changes.

By: Chris Tew

Chris Tew — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:28:07 +0000

I don’t think Dave justified it because everyone is doing it, he simply said everyone is doing it and they don’t feel it is wrong.

I completely disagree that the entertainment industry is an unrewarding business – its a massive multi billion dollar business. Someone is getting the rewards. If it is not the content producers themselves then that has little to do with file sharing. I believe its part an oversupply of talent making it competitive because people love being involved in the industry it drives compensation for everyone down, and secondly to do with larger corporation having a monopoly control over distribution and being able to filter a large part of the profit due to their monopoly. This has nothing to do with file sharing.

The point of this article is that file sharing is a distribution mechanism that people want. The rights holders are preventing it to keep their profits high, but subsequently causing an explosion in piracy.

As stated many times here on WebTVWire we believe the future of the industry lies in rights holders embracing new technology and looking into new monetization mechanisms rather than fighting a loosing battle. This will increase the spread of information and entertainment, improve user experience and allow content producers to have their content reach more and more people in a legal way which they are compensated from.

By: kristen miller

kristen miller — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:55:56 +0000

As a content producer, I’m offended at your support of file sharing of copyrighted material. The volume of people committing the illegal act of stealing does not justify the crime! It may seem like a ‘loosing battle’ to you who benefit, however your acts only serve to undermine the quality, professional efforts and sacrifice that go in to making those products you so eagerly steal.

People work VERY HARD and get paid surprisingly little to create the films and music you steal. You behave disrespectfully to the artist, the creative talent, and all the other people that sacrifice so much to be part of an extremely competitive and unrewarding business.

Stealing is wrong – how sad it is that you feel it is justified because ‘everyone’ is doing it.