[Groop] Groo... What pirates? (File Sharing)

[Alexandre Hannud Abdo]

Ni!

 Well, groo stuff is quite rare around here (in brazil), so I have always shared my groo stuff with my friends. But that did not stop them from buying those issues ass soon as they found them, actually, had I not shared my stuff, they'd have never bought any groo at all!

 So I believe sharing comics to be a good thing.

 More generally, in my experience, people do go and acctually buy the stuff after they've seen/heard/read it, if they liked it.
 If they don't, is because they don't have money (and wouldn't be buying anyway), or because it's BAD stuff in their opinion.
 In fact, thank's to internet sharing I have bought MUCH LESS BAD STUFF.
 And since I still can't make my savings, all the money I was spending on bad stuff must have made it's way to good stuff.
 Which is essentially good after all.

 I think filesharing has a much harder effect on bad music, bad movies and bad comics than on the good ones.
 Actually I sense the opposite, a good effect, when it comes to good media.

 On another topic, I tend to agree with BooK that false statues and other 'unique', hardware, stuff are harmfull, specially because they usually don't live up to the quality Groo deserves, but also because, being 'unique' and hardware, people are supposed to pay for them (it can't be shared), and you can't choose to buy a quality version approved by the authors.
 Of course that shouldn't prevent real artistic-oriented (not sales-oriented) sculptors from doing groo statues, because this people would have no problem dealing a lawful authorization from Mark&Sergio.

 Now if laws might differ from my perspective, just remember they exist to conform to social order and make it stable and fair, not the reverse (excpetion made for divine law, or fascism if you are into it), and anyway that's too much monkey business for this list ;-)

 Hugs!

Alexandre

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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:24:34 -0700
"Groo" <grinningdemon at comcast.net> wrote:

>  
> I was on the emule/edonkey network and for the heck of it decided to look up
> "Groo". There were several groo comics being shared in PDF format.
> 
> I don't know what the Groop's views are on file sharing and was just curious
> what you all thought.
> 

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