Should Illegal Downloading be made legal?

@diamania (7011)
Netherlands
August 25, 2009 11:14am CST
With all these online and offline discussions about illegal downloading . I believe it is time to check what the average MyLotter thinks about illegal downloading and the precautions taken by different parties with all their interests. I personally believe that downloading music for free through p2p and mp3 download sites should be allowed ( in a few countries like The Netherlands this is allowed as long as it's for personal use). Music must be spread not kept on an expensive disk with a hole in it also known as a CD Rom or CD for short, leaving it intangible for people who are barely able to buy themselves some food and occasional entertainment. As for software obtained through warez sites I think it okay for people to download from this and share what they were able to crack and what they found through insecured download pages. After all the security of their business is the company's own responsibility. An understandable but dangerous reactions from ISPs and governments is to ban the access to internet for those who violate copyright laws. This is dangerous in a sense that this would pull the warez scene more to the underground making the warez community smaller but more powerful. What's cool about doing something that is legal as opposed to doing something that might end up in you serving time? What is your vision?[u][/u][b][/b]
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6 responses
@dianmelydia (2269)
• Indonesia
25 Aug 09
Illegal is illegal and legal is legal. I think there's no way to make something illegal become legal and there's no way too to make something legal to become illegal. Download has become a problem since the internet were invented first time. There's alot of download materials we can have today. From legal download to illegal download. But, what actually is an illegal download? The problem is on the download providers. Why the illegal content can be on internet for public's download? This is the main problem. If the content is really copyrighted, then how can it published very easy on the internet? Who's actually the publisher? Why don't the copyright's owners make their own download store? I can't understand why these thing can happened. But the fact is there's alot of download materials we can easily download from the internet. For some newbie, how can they know which one is legal and illegal download provider? I think everything should be started from the beginning. The authority should give more and more education for new generation because now we have cyber generation (also known as e-generation) in our society. They would be the next internet masters is our society. So, early prevention is more useful. There's no way to make an illegal download become a legal download, so the only thing the authority can do is don't let people to download from illegal download providers. How to do it, it depends on their socialization. Good luck and have a nice day. Happy mylotting.
26 Aug 09
I believe that downloading music should be 100% legal because I believe most people who use it are like me. I download maybe three or four songs from an album to see if I like the material and then if I do I often buy the album online on amazon. That is the same with anyone who I have spoken to about this and also what I have heard from television when people have been interviewed about their views. However I can see the record companies point when people are downloading full albums and then making copies to sell illegally. That's where the police should be spending their time stopping people selling cds. There are still many more albums sold than downloads so It can't be that bad for record companies can it?
• Canada
26 Aug 09
Be honest you don't really download and buy the albums afterwards, why would you do that when there are free with your illegal downloading? How much of the music that you have has actually been purchased? Be honest now.
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
26 Aug 09
Whether lakerfanster is speaking the truth or not is not important to me now. His illegal selling argument is a good one. Making money of other people's work should be illegal not the possession of it. Unless you bought it from an unauthorized seller which would be possession of stolen tools, whereas finding money on the street equals stumbling upon downloads and is thus equally ok to keep. With the latter one being more ok than the first one. ;P Morally spoken...
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
25 Aug 09
Yes it should because downloading music is to expensive and with the ecconomy so bad we shouldnt have to pay that high for music. On I tunes the music is One dollar and 29 cents per song which is just pathetic who would pay that much for one song I know I would not.
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
26 Aug 09
Prices like 1.29 is indeed rather expensive. Of course there are competing sites who charge less but the question is are they legal?
@bigplay (212)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I think old songs and old video games like from earlier this century and later at least the 90's and 80's video games and music, i think things like that should be legal to download. I mean there aren't too many people that want to buy an old song that they heard a thousand times on the radio when it came out, while they can get it for free through downloading. I think some ilegal downloading should be legal, why do yuo have to pay for every, single, thing?
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
26 Aug 09
Honestly, I think it should remain illegal, because it's stealing. Even if everyone does it, even if trying to sue/arrest everyone would be ridiculous, even if the people who download stuff wouldn't have paid for it even if downloads weren't available... I still say it should be illegal. My reason for saying this? Intellectual property belongs to the people who created it. Even if they can't stop you from downloading their stuff without paying them, I think they should be allowed to retain the right to call illegal downloaders a bunch of cheap law-breaking jerks. p=
@KMPierce (165)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I think the laws should remain as they are. This is how money is made. Yes, they should spend their time finding those that produce in large quantities and go after them, but i don't think it's right for anyone to download without paying.