P2P File Sharing: Cheating or Being Resourceful?

hey cable, well its quite a tricky subject and is very subjective to peoples opinions. Personally heres my take on it, p 2 p is illegal it is effectively software piracy, though that said I personally download items using bit-torrents, Though the reason why I do it is if a album comes out from an artist or a new computer game then I will download a hacked copy of the game or album. If the game or album isnt very good it saves me from wasting my money, though if I like the album or game then I go out and buy the original. I can see how it affects the owners or copy right holders but p 2 p is here and I truely believe more people should do what I do and purchase the item in question if they like it. That would also mean that the developers or artists wouldn't be able to get away with creating a few good songs on an album and the rest being average or same as a computer game great marketing poor game if everyone done what I do I think the standards would rise as people wouldnt purchase a inferior game or album they would just delete it after downloading.

Technically, loaning your dvd or cd to someone at no charge isn't wrong. But when you share it with potentially millions of people that want to take advantage of someone's talent with no intention of paying for the product, I believe it is theft. Sharing with everyone in the world-or at least everyone who has a computer-is quite different from lending a disc to the guy down the street. Think of it this way--you have an ebook that you worked hard to produce. It's a best seller and you're doing well. Suddenly, sales fall off and you find that somehow a few people who have bought your ebook put it on a files haring program and anyone who wants it can have it for free. Pretty soon your income dries up and you have to produce another ebook, but the same thing happens. Now you have no income and you lose everything you've worked so hard for. File sharing is no different from going into a store and stealing a disc. It's the volume of the sharing that's the problem. It negatively impacts sales and robs artists of just compensation for their talents.