Dvorak weighs in on file-sharing

John Dvorak writes "When is Stealing not Stealing?" in PC Magazine.

As a challenge, someone asked the forum members to justify online music trading as anything other than outright stealing. It was clear from the discussion that the moral debate on these issues has still never been fully explored. This is because the debaters are either high and mighty "stealing is stealing" types or anarchists. And these two groups do not debate anything.

He presents five scenarios for debate. Interesting reading.


Written by Andrew Ittner in misc on Fri 04 July 2003. Tags: commentary, entertainment, technology