Imagine if the Louvre or Metropolitan Museum allowed anyone for free to download Picassos (prints) over the Internet. While it might be nice to claim to have "a Picasso" what of the person or people who own the rights to Picasso's work (Pablo himself being dead)?
Imagine if Stephen King--the leader in e-publishing book selling--was to find out one day that he is not getting any royalties off millions downloading or "print-on-demand-ing" his works. He--who is much "bigger" than Metallica could ever hope to be--just might throw a proverbial fit over that (not that I am suggesting Stephen King throws fits, okay?).
Right now you can download movies from almost anywhere, anysite that makes and sells short movies--we still don't have the capacity to store feature length jobs (good God--imagine the hard disk size we would need considering a Quicktime movie at about ten seconds is about half a megabyte--a ten terra byte hard drive! [That is ten thousand BILLION bytes, folks, and I'd go higher except I don't remember off hand what the next highest power of ten is called. If someone reads this, let me know.]) But when that day comes, and it is coming, imagine being able to download "Gone with the Wind" for free and the movie studio that made it (remind me, someone), the director and the actors don't (if they are still alive, RIP Clark Gable) get a dime of royalties. What would Mel Gibson--one of the very few superstars in Hollywood who decries today's rampant political correctness in that neck of the woods, and a true free speech advocate--do and what court would he approach if a would-be Napster-of-video-sites decided in the near future to offer free downloads of "The Patriot"? What if this site was a politically incorrect site giving the movie away to remind folks that us here in the States need to reclaim our freedoms from a Federal govt. bent on wiping out the Bill of Rights? Would Gibson sue the bunch?
On the other hand, would any sleezebag produce a child porn flick and get to grace our computers with one hour of "cum, dripping down to your ankles" or "lip smacking dick" --oaky, okay, you get the point (anything in quotes here is for illustrative purposes only, and this writer does not visit porn sites, okay?!?)--on a five year old girl or boy? For free? Children allowed?
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