Comments on: Why people pirate music and don’t care

By: Hydrocodone.

Hydrocodone. — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:57:51 +0000

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Why people pirate music and don’t care — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:51:59 +0000

Why people pirate music and don’t care

Why people pirate musi…

By: DVD Recorder Info

DVD Recorder Info — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:09:53 +0000

Why people pirate music and don’t care

[Source: GoldSounds] quoted: Following on from my earlier rant post about why it’s hard to make money as an artist, I was inspired by yet another insightful mini-article at ArsTechnica. The premise of the article (based on an LA Times article tha…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 11 May 2005 17:43:19 +0000

I think another reason is one of vicarious guilt. Since everyone (or the vast majority) has at one time or another had an illegal compilation tape or downloaded that one song that they can’t find anywhere, or the one song that they enjoy from the otherwise poor album, considerable empathy is created for the accused.

I speculate that since people feel some guilt on their own, they tend to be lenient with anyone accused except in the most egregious cases.

This is not a unique phenomenon. We do it with drunk drivers too. I know a lot of people who have driven after having “one too many” at some point in their past. I think when faced with someone else who as done the same thing you get the same leniency, again in all but the most egregious cases.

Just my thoughts.

Kevin