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(Unverified)Jul 31st 2008 7:40AM
I personally think that as well as the open-source community, it is having a worrying effect on how the future developers will start off in a fulfilling career.
People such as myself who are hoping to perfect the skills they have in computer-based work..will soon begin to feel like there will be no hope for the future of the things they make. Why study and perfect a knowledge or a skill, if others play with them like they are toys?
There use to be a era where the big-time devs were an inspiration, but piracy has almost made pirates the ones in control in a way...and those who want a chance at doing something decent will be too worried that it will just get ripped off and used for free. Because lets face it, as much as people say they only pirate things to test them...that is not true.
Those who may spend a lot of time developing solutions and ideas, that become useful and popular to many, deserve to be phrased for their efforts right?,
So how can such a thing be possible if everyone is too CHEAP to bother? Sure, they could ask for a possible donation if you like their product, but the chances of someone giving that for something that is free?
...Quite small I would think.
It is true, that some of the messages given out by pirate communities are good ones...like the idea behind the ease of sharing content with others...but so far it seems the only sharing that is happening both ways..is between the consumers.
Those who are getting it for nothing are barely bothering to share something back to the developers. Yes, we all know that means money.
If you have so much time to be using all these wonderful and free things, maybe that explains why many don't have the money, or jobs even? I don't know.
Maybe the problem is that with the modern, rapidly increasing living costs, maybe the amount of money people get paid should be increasing as well? But I guess that is where greed comes in. Those in control can either be fair about things, or they can be greedy. That is the main two factors that I think play a good role in why piracy is mainstream now...and it is. One could ask, why so greedy?
I think there are many different ways that piracy is affecting people as a whole...but I think at the most, it is twisting the roles of those who consume...and those who develop.
That is what I think on this topic anyways.
This random rant was brought to you by coffee :D