Tonight my husband and I are enjoying the BYU basketball game on some internet site that I am almost positive is illegal. How can it not be, right?? We're too cheap for All Sports Passes, too cheap for cable TV and even too cheap to buy tickets to just go to the game. For some reason, I don't feel like I'm the only guilty of this kind of attitude.
When I was in high school, it was all about the free music. Limewire (before you realized it was infecting your computer with viruses). I still have all the same music I owned in high school on my iPod because I am too stubborn to actually pay for music. I know, I know. This all sounds totally ridiculous. But that is the kind of attitude that naturally comes with growing up in an age where we can share everything over the internet.
Can we overcome this type of an attitude? Absolutely. I am at the point where I realize it is a moral dilemma that I am faced with. But am I ready to give up the free media? Probably not tonight... Is that terrible? Probably. But I'm still not totally convinced its illegal, so for now, I'm okay with it. I have given up the illegal music downloads, though. But I can't help but wonder if we had to pay for more of our media, would we be more careful about our choices?
I have the same issues! I haven't bought music in at least a year or two because I didn't like that I was illegally downloading music and I also will not pay $1.29 for one measly song. I have settled with Pandora and all of the music that I still have on my itunes.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think that we do pay in some way for most media, just not directly. Television and radio have commercials, so we are paying with our time. Many of the free music sites still have malicious software or follow your website identity to know what you are likely to click on or buy, etc. I think it is hard when many people don't want to pay for media to stay strong in moral convictions. I know it was awkward the other day when my roommates asked if they could burn my CD, and I said I was trying to be better about that. For me, in the end, I'd rather say no now than feel guilty during the next talk/lesson on it later.
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