Pirating films disrespectful of creators' hard work (Friday, April 10th, Forum A35)
Chan Yue San (3) and Yuan Chenxin (21)
The author, Edwin Teong Ying Keat, thinks that the pirating of films is not acknowledging the hard work they put into the movie, as it both takes a share of their profits unfairly and is illegal at any rate.
I agree with the author, as pirating is just the wrong thing when the creators of a movie spend months, or even years on a movie and you take the credit for it in literally 10 minutes or less. Pirating is like stealing, just a more glorified version of it. You take the profits that they could have earned if the audience of the pirated movies had come to the theater to watch the movie and paid the tickets. Would you feel good stealing the credit away from someone who deserves it more? Is that fair, at the very least to the creators?
We should make it an important mission to prevent the spread of pirated movies, and educate the people on the reasoning behind it. Other than being illegal, it brings a whole host of other problems like copyright, etc. No one wants to be the one to open the can of worms.... So let's try to keep it closed on this issue.
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