rikt

It drives me a bit crazy when technologists continue to defend torrent sites.  Cries of due process, unfairness, trial with out jury, etc just to name a few accusations are without merit.  One only has to go to one of these sites and plainly see what they are offering is breaking multiple laws.  Authors, musicians, programmers, etc all work hard and deserve to be compensated for what they have created.  Music stealing is so pervasive, so accepted it’s depressing.  How can anyone feel that a son is too expensive at $1.29.  Yes you can debate endlessly that not much goes to the artist, etc, that’s not the point, the artist still gets compensated and it’s legal.

I’ve talked quite often to my kids about why we pay for our music and so far they see clearly what the benefit is.  While they may not have 25000 songs, that rarely get listened to, we have a great collection that we all share and yes it’s in the thousands and yes we paid for it all.  Then again there are CDs from the early 90’s in the collection as well.

My final point is this, if a crime is witnessed (files available for download) by law enforcement they must make an arrest.  Imagine if a police officer had to obtain a warrant while witnessing a crime in progress before he could make an arrest?   Yes I believe it’s the same thing.