fastmouth808 Posted July 7, 2009 Report Posted July 7, 2009 this has to be the best way to put it about pirating stuff.. An analogy for internet file sharing, the best one ive seen.. The internet is an infinite beach. One can reach down and pick up a handful of sand. This is theft, but it generally ignored because the value of the sand you've taken isn't worth pursuing, moreover if the sand wasn't plentiful and easily accessed, you very likely wouldn't have bothered going down to the brick-and-mortar sand store and bought some. What is prosecuted is when you take sand that belongs to someone else and add it to the beach - that is distribution, and you can be fined an arbitrary and excessive amount regardless of whether or not any damages are done. You hand is a peer-to-peer app. You reach down and grab a handful of sand, and some of that sand runs through your fingers back to the beach. It is this sand running through your fingers that the RIAA says is distribution. They don't care if you keep any sand or not - only that sand you've touched ends up back on the beach. What the RIAA and their buddies don't understand is that once something is added to that beach the damage is done - adding it again doesn't increase the damage.
Quinn Posted July 11, 2009 Report Posted July 11, 2009 this has to be the best way to put it about pirating stuff.. An analogy for internet file sharing, the best one ive seen.. The internet is an infinite beach. One can reach down and pick up a handful of sand. This is theft, but it generally ignored because the value of the sand you've taken isn't worth pursuing, moreover if the sand wasn't plentiful and easily accessed, you very likely wouldn't have bothered going down to the brick-and-mortar sand store and bought some. What is prosecuted is when you take sand that belongs to someone else and add it to the beach - that is distribution, and you can be fined an arbitrary and excessive amount regardless of whether or not any damages are done. You hand is a peer-to-peer app. You reach down and grab a handful of sand, and some of that sand runs through your fingers back to the beach. It is this sand running through your fingers that the RIAA says is distribution. They don't care if you keep any sand or not - only that sand you've touched ends up back on the beach. What the RIAA and their buddies don't understand is that once something is added to that beach the damage is done - adding it again doesn't increase the damage. Pwnage
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