I was curious as to peoples' thoughts on this subject:
how to go about breaking peoples' sense of entitlement when it comes to stuff online. That is, the feeling that there's no such thing as stealing porn, stealing content, stealing software, so forth.
It seems that with any intangible product (being music, videos, software, and stuff that you can't actually have sitting before you and touch) there's this sense that you're entitled to do all you can to get it for free. I see on discussion boards all the time people openly talking about how they'd never buy software or pay for a site membership because they can get it all for free (through p2p and hacked memberships/videos).
You never hear people sitting around talking about how they're all perfectly entitled to walk in to a store and grab whatever they want and walk out the door because they have no desire to pay for it. We universally recognize such types as thieves. But when it comes to non-physical products online, there's still a big culture of entitlement to such things.
A porn fan would probably immediately recognize that it was wrong and illegal to walk in to a brick and mortar porn store and steal a basket of DVDs. But take those DVDs, rip them, and post them online and that same person's ethics will change entirely, and they'll feel like they have every right to acquire the digital copies.
How would you suggest that culture be broken?
Bookmarks