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« on: July 04, 2006, 03:46 PM »
Once again, a justification. Over and above the laws of man or God, theft is wrong, plain and simple. There is no justification. Even if it is done out of desperation, it is still wrong. Would I steal to save my family's life? Yes, but that does NOT make it right.
Stealing intellectual property is theft. This is an original idea, owned solely by the creator, if you copy of use it without permission, you are robbing that person of that original idea, and that is theft. The problem is too many people quibble about interpretations and circumstances. We need to deal in absolutes here, right and wrong. Software piracy can be explained, but not justified, and is in no way right.
As I said, if I sit in front of your home, and use your wireless that you pay for, I am stealing, whether it is out of desperation or not.
Back to the topic though, hacking is not a malicious act, it is curiosity, not meant to harm or steal, not mischevious. Those who distribute what has been defeated are the problem. Back in the day we hacked and phreaked out of the pure challenge and discovery of it, now kiddies are finding it cool to hack and then distibute software, movies, and so forth. It is the attitude of the net that this is "l33t" and other ridiculous, immature garbage like that. Software was once hacked for the challenge, not for the distributon. Authors and companies were notified of the method and software became better for it, unless or course the company or author did nothing. People who knew us, our "friends" not in our circles, were the ones releasing our work onto the Internet for others not in our circles, and without our authorisation. That is how this all got started, the "warez" scene and so forth, and it snowballed into the poor, wannabe cool attitude on the Internet today, the attitude that finds it "l33t" to distibute other's hard work.
When people finally start standing up and saying "this is wrong and not cool" is when piracy will end. The hacking will continue though. All the efforts by the RIAA and MPAA and shareware authors, and companies are just drops into an ever increasing black hole. They will always be defeated and piracy will continue until we ourselves stand up and say it is wrong insted of finding ways to justify it or make it appear that we have reasons. There is no reason whatsoever that makes piracy right.
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Origin Of The Idea: I have these power off and sleep buttons on my keyboard, and today I accidentally hit the power button while moving a stack of CDs around, losing a lot of things I was working on, had been working on for hours. There is no specific software that needs to be installed for these buttons to work, I guess they just use Windows' own shut down calls or something.
