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Friday, April 28, 2006
Campus pirates under attack from film, music biz - Yahoo! News
Well piracy aside, this could change the way colleges deal with providing internet to their students in general. I hope that in the pursuit to stop pricay that schools do not overly monitor what students are doing online. I grant the piracy is a very real problem and while I don't fully agree with Kristen about the industries inablity to stop it, I just hope this doesn't turn into a reason for colleges to monitor everything students do online.
Attacking students who download illegally after the fact seems kind of like saying that abstinance is the best way to prevent std's. It completely avoids actually addressing the problem at hand. Punishing students who download illegally may make them stop, but for every one you punish there are a hundred more doing the same thing. They already have the mindset that they arent doing anything wrong. If the music and film industries really want to target this issue they should take the offensive instead of the defensive. Educate children at a young age about the problem and make sure they understand why it is wrong. Give them other solutions to the issue and make sure they can access it easily. In essence, provide digital media condoms?
Yes piracy is wrong. But college students are a LARGE group of who consume their products. I mean, does it really matter if they don't buy the movie or music? Shouldn't it be about the art? *sigh* its not, of course. For smaller bands and film makers, it IS simply about people viewing their work. But for those in the profession, the art means nothing. Exposing people to new ideas should be the ultimate goal, but its all about who they can exploit rather than affect.
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Well piracy aside, this could change the way colleges deal with providing internet to their students in general. I hope that in the pursuit to stop pricay that schools do not overly monitor what students are doing online. I grant the piracy is a very real problem and while I don't fully agree with Kristen about the industries inablity to stop it, I just hope this doesn't turn into a reason for colleges to monitor everything students do online.
Sam Zarn
Attacking students who download illegally after the fact seems kind of like saying that abstinance is the best way to prevent std's. It completely avoids actually addressing the problem at hand. Punishing students who download illegally may make them stop, but for every one you punish there are a hundred more doing the same thing. They already have the mindset that they arent doing anything wrong. If the music and film industries really want to target this issue they should take the offensive instead of the defensive. Educate children at a young age about the problem and make sure they understand why it is wrong. Give them other solutions to the issue and make sure they can access it easily.
In essence, provide digital media condoms?
Yes piracy is wrong. But college students are a LARGE group of who consume their products. I mean, does it really matter if they don't buy the movie or music? Shouldn't it be about the art? *sigh* its not, of course. For smaller bands and film makers, it IS simply about people viewing their work. But for those in the profession, the art means nothing. Exposing people to new ideas should be the ultimate goal, but its all about who they can exploit rather than affect.
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