technology issues in Puna,...please not today!

[Beachboy]

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How much I think the content should cost is irrelevant. As everyone has different opinion.

I'll leave this discussion on this note.If there is no financial incentive to create content, the world will be far worse off.

It may come to a point where we'll see less good movies,music,software because the
financial incentive is not there. Just something to think about when you pirate that
music, software,movies.

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there is two sides of this issue even amongst people(artist) within the industries. A lot of people think their musice should be given away free on the Internet. These are the one's banking on people liking what they heard so much that they go out and purchase it.

Aaron, I'm one who's been paying out the ass for years for records(LP's) Cassettes, 4 track, 8 track. I've gone through the entire spectrum of technology myself over the years. All that stuff was running at 100 to 1000 % profit for record companies... the artist themselves got hosed on another higher plain than us the consumers . Have I ever downloaded music, movies, or software...you bet! Do I feel guilty? Not for one single second! But I'm not abusive either doing this either. As for music I have used the p2p technology to download maybe two hundred songs! I have never illegally downloaded any movies, but software is another issue entirely. I can't afford $500.00 for Photoshop, nor can afford that much for my Macromedia MX Suite(DreamweaverMX, flash FX,Fireworks MX,Freehand 10. Office is another bundle I couldn't afford...but I have them all because a lot people on vacation I taught surfing in Honolulu, went home and sent me copies of their software as tips. I even had a Microsoft employee I taught surfing go back to Redmond after vaction in the islands and send me Microsoft software for Macs.
You gonna tell me you have never,ever done this yourself?