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anyonebutedmonton · 05-21-2010, 11:48 AM

I just have a hard time ever seeing this affecting anyone but the people downloading from torrents and other typically pirated methods. No one is going to break into your house on the suspicion that you ripped a legally purchased DVD to your iPod. How would they ever know?

What you will see is a crackdown on torrent users. They will be able to track you through your IP and sue you for damages.

This is actually something that has got me thinking about how I view media that I download. I'm from the generation that grew up using Napster, then Kazaa, then Limewire and finally torrents and I can honestly say I have, until now, never had a problem pirating material. The more I think about it the more I can see the error in my way of thinking. It is always hard to accept that you have to pay for something that you are accustomed to getting for free (ahem parking at c-train lots), but in the end if you are using the media you should be forced to pay for it.

I guess the conclusion I have come to is that I am against most of this legislation in that it has the potential to punish the wrong people, but am for some sort of legislation that targets the pirating of copyrighted material.

05-21-2010, 11:48 AM	#110
anyonebutedmonton Scoring Winger Join Date: Jul 2006 Exp:	I just have a hard time ever seeing this affecting anyone but the people downloading from torrents and other typically pirated methods. No one is going to break into your house on the suspicion that you ripped a legally purchased DVD to your iPod. How would they ever know? What you will see is a crackdown on torrent users. They will be able to track you through your IP and sue you for damages. This is actually something that has got me thinking about how I view media that I download. I'm from the generation that grew up using Napster, then Kazaa, then Limewire and finally torrents and I can honestly say I have, until now, never had a problem pirating material. The more I think about it the more I can see the error in my way of thinking. It is always hard to accept that you have to pay for something that you are accustomed to getting for free (ahem parking at c-train lots), but in the end if you are using the media you should be forced to pay for it. I guess the conclusion I have come to is that I am against most of this legislation in that it has the potential to punish the wrong people, but am for some sort of legislation that targets the pirating of copyrighted material.