OK, you think that movie stars make too much money for what they do. Yet, they make as much as they do only because there is demand for their performance and therefore they don't make too much, they just make what they can given that demand. By stealing their movies or songs you are benefitting from a product they made, should they not have a say in what to do with what they made?
Say you built a bike, but someone who is poorer than you decided that it was ok to steal it because you are ritcher. I would say that is immoral, that person does not have a moral reason for stealing your bike.
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Not the same thing. The movie star doesn't lose the use of anything.
I think our society is morally corrupted in that our most lauded, praised and worshipped heroes are people who "make believe" for a living. Therefore, DL'ing movies is actually helping to correct the balance. I don't feel quite this strongly about music as I believe music stars haven't been blown quite as out of proportion to their worth as movie stars, and touring is tough freakin work. That being said, while I don't DL music, most of what I have is from friends who either ripped it or DL'd it.
I don't feel bad at all. I still pay for the theatre, because I get some benefit - I see the movie on the big screen. I still rent occasionally, but that's getting expensive too. Now that I can DL I feel great about it! I will keep going to concerts cause again, I get the show, the sound and the atmosphere. And I will keep buying the odd CD.
Furthermore, I believe quite strongly that the TV and movie industry is wayyyy behind the curve and their fight against file sharing has lost them the opportunity to make way more money by co-opting the process and selling low-def copies of their products cheap (cause let's face it, most DL's are pretty low def). If the industry had jumped on board, they could have made tons of money. Instead, they are stuck in the past, refusing to change and losing.
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