Bill Gates, Piracy, and mengutip :)

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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2803

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Bill Gates' piracy confession
By Robert L. Mitchell on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 12:53pm

If you read way down to the bottom of a Wall Street Journal interview with Bill Gates that ran yesterday, you'll discover that the Microsoft executive admitted to watching pirated movies on the Internet. The confession came as he was talking about content he had viewed on YouTube. Here's part of the exchange:

WSJ: You watch physics lectures and Harlem Globetrotters [on YouTube]?

Gates: This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

WSJ: But those were stolen, correct?

Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.

The Internet's biggest social failure has been that it has served as enabling technology for rampant cheating and theft - and the rationalization of it. The Internet makes stealing so easy that most people don't even think about it.

Bill Gates' comments would appear to be a case in point. You can hear the wheels turning as Gates thinks through the reality of his actions before finally admitting that he has indeed downloaded and consumed copyrighted content.



Komennya lucu2 :))

Anonymous wrote:
I steal but at least I know it’s wrong.

Anonymous wrote:
Isn't it funny that the one man who could buy any and probably all the networks combined; steals from them?

scottbp wrote:
Just a note, copyright infringement is NOT theft.
US courts have said this, the **aa's keep calling it that, but according to the law it is NOT.

Downloadin' Fool wrote:
This is the Information Age. Let the data flow freely amongst us all, and let there be joy! Blessed is the p2p downloader, for he shall be enriched and enlightened (unless of course it's 200 terabytes of pron he's downloading every week). Wretched are those who try to control, profit from and withold information, for they are the sand in the Eye of Knowledge, and serve only to irritate and impede the expansion of the collective consciousness.
One of the single greatest causes of fighting and mistrust between nations and between individuals, has been the lack of knowledge about the other. We fear what we don't know. Lack of knowledge, lack of information, leads to fear. Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger lead to hate, hate....leads to suffering. End the suffering, let there be peace and let us all download with impunity! Long live the interweb!
- slushypip

WHOOOO wrote:
Bill Gates is f'ing awesome.

gill bates wrote:
"I did't get to be the world's richest man by writing lots of checks!"


hehehehehe..now, given the situation di atas, by copy pasting like mine, did i steal anything?

:)))