jacob_kohler

Ethics applies to every aspect of life.

McBoost

It was a joke... I thought you were making a reference from Billy Madison at the end of the movie when they're having an academic decathalon and Adam Sandler was talking about the puppy who lost his way.

Actually, Business Ethics wasn't his category... his was something about the industrial revolution or something :P

Also, about the punishments for stealing physical property from the store vs stealing music online... I think it is way out of proportion. First of all, you're not stealing a CD, you're downloading a file, which isn't taking anyone's actual paid inventory.

HondaTuner

Interesting tid bit, I talked to my mom in the past about MP3's and such, and she has NO problem with me downloading MP3's and Software (such as Photoshop or Microsoft Office) but she has a problem with me "using" the neighbors bandwith, ie picking up a signal via wireless. She calls the latter stealing.

Tom-Guy

Haven't you pointed out they are beaming their interwebs into your living room??

Holy shinola, Danno, get one of the full mods here to tell you how many unique IPs I log in from. Easily 35+ in the last year, all thanks to the kind souls who boradcast the interwebs into my living space for my enjoyment.

Cray91

DirecTV, please stop beaming your signal at my sat dish...I don't even want it, but I guess I will use it while it is here.

Just talk about current artists fighting against piracy because it doesn't allow them to turn out crap albums with only a couple good tracks.

mike94se

Tell your mom that if you don't pirate the signal, she'll get ovarian cancer, have tt go into surgery, and lose her reproductive system.

And tell her God said so :P

FooK

JD and ethics....ha

buk9tp

to sum:

crxtuner

Nothing against cray but something to point out, If i pay my bill every month to direcTv then they are collecting my part for using directv, cray on the other hand does not pay his bill but yet still recieves the same service i get from direcTv; direcTv is not going to shut off their satelites b/c they are taking on a loss ,only when they no longer make any money will they call it quits. The music industry is in the same place direcTv is yet the music industry solely consists of middle men and few of them actually take place in the production of the music itself. When we are no longer charged for these middle men who make money where they should not then music would actually be something people may be more inclined to pay for.

HondaTuner

That, and my mentioning of free cable made her upset, haha. And on the lines of what Cray said, I used to point my ole rabbit ears towards my neighbors satellite dish and picked up a ton of channels

And my gf is learning quick... she's on vacation and picked up some poor sap's internet connection from the motel room