Privacy eh Piracy..
It’s quite a time I didn’t write anything here. It’s not that busy actually, just having no good mood to write anything. Well, now I just want to fill up some time before going to Cotton Island.
What I want to write is about piracy.
It was begun when I knew computer, fond of the games, then continued with the invention of MP3 format, DivX, etc… I never thought it was a big deal copying stuffs like that, as it is very common in here… And on the contrary, it would look so weird seeing people buy thousands dollars of software while we could just rent the pirated software for no more than Rp.5000,-
I happened watching a movie (it’s a pirated DVD movie borrowed from my friend mhuahaha..), it is started with an advertisement to remind us that piracy is a crime similar as stealing, robbing, or anything which relates with depriving other’s property.
Lately, I’m thinking about this a lot. And I felt that I’ve done a very big crime. As I ever learn the five precepts in Buddhism. One of them is not to take other’s property which does not belong to me (in short: not to steal). I’m too afraid to find out, how many years I’ve done this.. even till now.. how many piracy have been done..? is it still countable.. or too many to count so it becomes uncountable? I should write it like this perhaps: how much piracy have been done?
But honestly, this is quite difficult to change. It already turns to a habit, a culture. I can’t imagine how much already stolen from great software corporation such as Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, etc. Well, sorry and thank you.. lol… at least, I’ll not give a bad comment for The Bill Gates Empire as others.. I think M$ products are good enough, expensive to my pocket.. yess.., and gladly, they can still be cracked by somebody out there.
When I ask comments of others about piracy, many of them still consider piracy is ok. They blame on the high price of software. I couldn’t agree more on this, but however, it can’t be accepted as the reason to do piracy. I’m sure if I can’t afford to buy a piano for learning piano, I’m rational enough not to steal piano from music store. Well, I think, piracy is not seen as a crime by most people who have done it because it’s very easy to do and it can be done anonymously, and, as we know, breaking the rules is fun. But to choose, which one is better?
A. Already know it’s bad, but keep doing it.
B. Keep doing it innocently because not knowing it is bad.
But there’s a nice thing… some of my friends start to use only legal proprietary software and open source software, but… still.. downloading copyrighted media such as music and video.. lol.. it’s ok2 lah.. as long as they let me borrow it. XD~
*I hope BSA doesn’t read this. if I found something suspicious, I’ll just delete this post (should be little bit paranoid).
