Actually, depending on where you live, it's NOT stealing. In Canada and many other countries, people are allowed to download almost anything. Produce copies and selling them for profit is illegal, of course. But downloading is not considered stealing, it's considered SHARING. You know? that thing we all learned in kindergarten; and then most promptly forgot. The original copyright laws couldn't enforce sharing so they had to allow people to be able to share things. All forms of media. Books, movies, music, graphics. Anything considered a form of media basically. In fact, copyrights actually harm the generation of an intellectually aware society because they imply that ideas ars personal rather than collective, as Buddhists have been proving over, and over, and over, for the last 3000 years of recorded history.
The current crisis in the world is how far we will let governments take over the free will of society to adapt and change naturally rather than stagnate and fall apart.
I do not speak as a user wanting to take.. I am an artist. I am a musician and a writer as well.. All things i create, I create for enjoyment, not profit. I do honest work to support myself in life. I am not a lecherous opportunist who gets rich on a painting, or a song, or a book, or a movie, and who doesn't lift a finger to help his fellow man. I release all my music and art on the Internet for absolutely FREE. Because culture and knowledge SHOULD be free and open to all people, not for profit. The Business Model of living has poisoned the soul of almost every aspect of this world. But business is a human concept, dependent upon a society that does not share, where every individual must consume to create more profit for the businesses to expand further. It is insanity. It is GREED INCARNATE.
All knowledge can be obtained by any person, anywhere, anytime.. Just because You said eureka, doesn't mean that knowledge belongs to you.. Newton, for example, did not invent gravity. Neither did he discover it. It discovered HIM. And he was not the first, the Egyptians knew of it. Mayans and Incas, and polar bears too!.. To fully explain this concept I'd have to go into all kinds of deep philosophy and crap.. or you could just watch this and get the jist of why censorship on the internet, and in general; is bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9h2dF-IsH0I
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