I’m going to start off by saying downloading torrent files is 100% free, you can get literally any kind of digital file for free. So why are some web-sites charging for these free files? I think Peer 2 peer sharing should not be against the law, as it is your choice to share something you legally purchased. For instance you wouldn’t go to jail for lending your friend Michael your new Black Eyed Pea’s CD. So why should someone be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for sharing their electronic files with peers over a network? If sharing files with thy neighbor is illegal than so should the public library system, you can borrow all kinds CD’s, DVD’s and VHS’s all for free.

Who’s to say people are taking them home and copying them? The RIAA shouldn’t be penalizing people who are innocently swapping files. For example if a group of people met up through meetup.com and decided to swap CD’s on a monthly basis no one would question or penalize them for doing so. Swapping live files or hard files no matter how you mix the medium it’s the same damn thing. Its not stealing, no one is profiting off of sharing their own files, nor are they profiting from downloading someone else’s shared files. The problem lies in how those files are being used, in my neighborhood you can find reformed drug dealers “so they say” Pushing all kinds of copyrighted material on the side of the road, and they are selling what is supposed to be free shared material and making profits up to 10,000 a month. They have no license to sell this material and do not claim any of this money on their taxes.

This is an outrage, the sheriff’s office allows these offenders to continue operating illegally; without even as much as a fine for solicitation of pirated goods on county property. What really disgust me, is that these individuals pay no taxes, rent, or fees to operate such an illegal business, and to add insult to injury the tax payers are footing the bill for their welfare/housing section-8. Cops don’t care about some kid selling pirated software on the side of the road. Why doesn’t anyone care about this? Why aren’t these individuals being prosecuted, for tax invasion, welfare fraud, operating without a business license, trespassing on public property, selling pirated media, just to name a few of the long list off offenses by these individuals. This is ridiculous! Numerous individual have been executed in court over sharing files they purchased legally, being fined ludicrous amounts in ranges of 25,00 all the way in the range of millions. Yet a person making 100,000’s of dollars a year in the peddling of pirated software can sell all he wants without even the slightest amount of punishment.

My other tiff is with Websites like UseNext and Binverse, Who do they think they are charging for torrents that they got from another torrent site for free? Why isn’t the RIAA shutting these sites down? Instead the RIAA would rather sink their teeth into legitimate sites who host file sharing but make no profit in doing so, meaning you don’t have to pay to download torrent files like you do on Usenext and Binverse. There are several sites gathering free torrents and then turning around and selling them for profit. These people my friend are the real criminals, these are the people who need to be fined and serve a lengthy sentence in jail. If you have a membership with a site that charges to download torrent files, not only are you stupid, your being ripped off and you’re supporting criminals. If people just shared and didn’t try and make a profit off of others stupidity, “the ones who don’t know about free torrent downloads” than I think that we could fight laws that permit us from sharing or swapping our own files.

I don’t think anyone has a right to tell me whether or not I can loan out a CD to my friend as well as if I decided to loan it to a few hundred friends over the internet. It is not stealing and it’s not wrong. The next time you lend anything out even a freaking pen, ask yourself this, should you have to call the manufacturer and get permission to loan something you paid for? What’s next serial codes on pens, paper, and books. Could you imagine a world in which you did not have the right to use freely anything you paid for? I think I made my point.

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