My question has to do with pirating, especially of music and movies. I know it's wrong, but at the same time I have a lot of stuff downloaded or obtained from friends who download. What should be my mindset for this?
Also, what should be my mindset especially with gray area, such as movies you own or friends own, or music you can easily grab off of Youtube, or stuff that you can't find in stores?
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From Jason Ericson
I guess there are three questions to ask in this situation:
1) How do you "know it's wrong"? What's wrong about it?
2) By "it's wrong", what do you mean? That it's against God's laws or against social conventions or what?
3) And if you know it's wrong - and by that you mean it's wrong in God's eyes - then why are you still doing it?
I have no answers for any of these questions, to be honest. I'm as in the dark as anybody else. The only thing I know for sure is that if you can certainly, unequivocally show that piracy is wrong in God's eyes, then there is no excuse whatsoever to do it. But is it? Ehh...I really don't know.
I have made a personal decision that if I really respect an artist or movie than I will support them by purchasing the work.
That might be wrong thinking if everything that i don't respect is free game to pirate.... then again, if i don't respect it- why am I listening and viewing it?
Perhaps its cause I was looking to go into the recording industry, and my some of my friends at school actually are, that I know a bit about the copywrite laws behind this, and have heard of all the effects that pirating has done to the industry itself. Essentially the major record labels are going bankrupt because of it, the recording industry is on it's deathbed, music will still happen somehow, through advertising or some other means of making money through it, but yeah we killed the industry as we know it today. So yeah here are the copywrite laws boiled down into a few sentences. It is illegal to both steal music and share music and movies. But you can share them with members of your household(immediate family). So no internet pirating; you can't share movies or music with your friends; you can't grab stuff off of youtube, they are violating copywrite laws putting it up there in the first place. If you can purchase it somewhere it probably isn't free, and you are stealing it if you take it. As far as stuff you already have already stolen or shared, the media industry has stated several times in the past that they won't press any charges if you delete all of stolen or shared stuff that you have and don't do it any longer. I think that is a pretty good deal. So yeah there really aren't any gray areas as far as I am concerned, and we should probably stay out of those anyway as a Christian, since we are to be "pure and blameless" and "shine like stars in the universe". I'm not sure if it gets any clearer then that. The ten commandments say don't steal. According to federal law piracy and sharing copyrighted materials is stealing. Therefore we are breaking one of the ten commandments if we steal or share music. If you want some more proof on the copywrite stuff, you can ask me any questions via e-mail at eastgoingeast@gmail.com. I have some friends that just went through a music business class, where they had to read through all of the legal stuff, I am just telling you what I heard from them. But I can ask them and they can tell me for sure if there are any doubts.
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