Piracy Blog

To begin, I personally believe that if you can get it for free... why not. Buying things costs money of course, so if you can get something for free that you've always wanted, then you should. Or course if you're completely rich and have the money for it then you should just go ahead and buy it because you've got no reason not to. I live with my mom who works for minimum wage at Walgreens, so I don't have the privilege of being wealthy. I don't have a job yet so the money I've still got from saving most goes to gas to get to and from my classes. Therefore all the things I can get for free from pirating I do.

Pirating is illegal and can be a felony if you pirate the right things or enough. Pirating is generally stealing something someone else has made their intellectual property. I believe that it is a bunch of horse shit because of all the people sue each other over who thought of this or that first... it's not very easy to tell who thought of it first. Be it a game, movie, or song.

Songs from iTunes sell for about a dollar or more each. A dollar for a 2-4 minute song is completely outrageous, anyone who pays that much for a song is utterly stupid. I download all the music I have for free. Applications or Apps for short can range from around $1-$4 and some Apps sell for much, MUCH more. Some Apps on iTunes have been sold in the thousands of dollars. The image below shows an app one would get after paying $999.99 for it on iTunes at one time.

Applications and selling songs individually are just easy ways to make money. If you're going to spend a couple dollars on a simple game or song... that's a couple dollars less you have for rent, groceries or other NECESSITIES. People shouldn't charge us to view or use something they thought of just because they made it and don't want people to use it for free.

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