Aaron Swartz story

Physcological: When I was listening to the Story of Aaron Swartz, it made me think of all the people who steal music, or illegally download music.  Those people are stealing for their own gain, when Aaron was initially trying to illegally take the American literature and share it for everyone online…

Social: I would say socially this Aaron was on the right path because he was trying to give people this book written by Webster to be handled by anyone.  This is also where the copyright act comes into play, but it was only hitting the people in the USA, Charles Dickens was and is a perfect example of a man who was robbed of all of his books until he came to America and he tried to get the international copyright acts.

Cultural: I feel that I have talked about the cultural side of things already with how we were stealing and selling books or works from over seas.  Until they tried to earn equal rights for the authors whose books were being sold in America but they were never sending a single cent to the author.

My personal stance on this subject is one sided. I am against anyone taking credit for someone else’s work in any shape or form. I strongly despise people who take credit for others doings and giving no credit whatsoever to the worthy recipients. I can remember a website that I think was probably written and created with some of the same codes and same ideas as those used by any other “gorilla open access” copies. That website I am talking about is LIMEWIRE. Limewire was used to download the new hot songs every single day for FREE!

Most artist don’t charge an arm or a leg for their music, but they do charge because they took the time to create what it is you are asking for. It makes sense that they want to be paid.