People are basically honest, and agree with the idea that artists should get paid.
LOL. Ha ha ha Ha ha ha Ha ha ha.
I think there's actually a more pertinent question, which is this: Why are people currently paying for things that they could get for free?
Even more pertinently, why are people "stealing", suffering DRM, being electronic freedom fighters with Oggs etc when there is a wealth of freely available content already available. I don't spend a lot of time hunting for podcasts but I have gigs of great audio and video to consume. Yeah a few BBC but mostly not. I worry that the big media groups will finally get online but will just be clunky, expensive and irrelevent. I don't need more content so any big program libraries are just not appealing. Here's to cool ideas like Backstage !! As an aside, I wonder why the BBC can't be producing more original podcast content. For example, Grammar Girl - great show, dynamic and educational. Hardly has a Holywood budget. Why are the BBC shows so sanitized and sterile e.g. Digital Planet??!? They are hardly stretching the medium either and sound like recycled radio. To answer my own question, I think people mostly pirate stuff partly to feel like 'winning' or beating the system. Good old greed which you won't ever get rid of with any technology :-) Yours cynically, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
