It's been a while but I believe I'll step into the dirt this time around. I'm certainly guilty of mp3 piracy in the past. I used to hate buying an album and then discovering that out of thirteen or sixteen songs, there was maybe four or five that I actually enjoyed if I was very lucky. I used to deeply resent that. I found it all too easy to rationalise grabbing a song here or there that I actually wanted. With software, there's too much of a stretch for me to ever make that kind of compromise with morality. If I enjoy using a program, I'll either enjoy it enough to buy it or simply do without it. It's that cut and dried. You're purchasing one thing that presumeably does what you want or need it to do. There's no slippery slope there. It's just a moral cliff to either jump off or not. Personally, I much prefer the higher ground. If, for some reason, I need technical support or a replacement key, I know I'm entitled to good customer care.
On the music front, I've finally had the good luck to have found: www.mp3fiesta.com It sells mp3s very cheaply so that buying an album is something like two dollars US and individual tracks are around ten cents. Downloading the mp3s is as easy as downloading a regular file and I don't have to worry about them only working on one machine or anything like that. It's about as reasonable as humanly possible and I know I'm supporting the artists. Any way you slice it, piracy is wrong. I'm not certain there's all that much to understand about why people do it. On the face of it, piracy doesn't seem wrong because no physical goods are being taken. I think we're all still catching up to the new digital world we live in. We have a hard time seeing the physical consequences of the act and that has allowed piracy to become as pervasive as it has particularly with music. In the accessible games industry, we'll feel the effects of piracy far more keenly as developers either go out of business or make their security more restrictive to the point where it starts to deny legitimate customers the ownership rights they ought to have. That process has already started with these activation keys which tie a game to a certain machine. I just had to get another code for Pipe2 so I could have it on my new desktop. If and when I'm able to get the funds to upgrade Jaws and go to a Vista machine, I'll have to do that all over again. If people keep passing around keys and cracks, I just hope developers keep their legal customers foremost. Michael Feir Creator and former editor of Audyssey Magazine 1996-2004 Check out my blog at: www.blindspots.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day > This is the kind of attitude which clearly shows a 2-faced mentality. On > one hand you say you don't pirate software, then on the other hand, you > say you pirate music. What's the difference? > > Amazing hypocrisy. > > shaun everiss said the following on 2/5/2008 3:29 AM: >> well I am around 25 now, I try to stay as free as I can without going >> alegal software wise. >> I still do music though. >> Really would run out of space if I didn't have mp3s. > -- > Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
