I find it interesting and more than a little ironic that where we currently stand, on the issue of intellectual property, comes from a long line of Piracy. It states right in the opening paragraph that "Every important sector of "big media" today-film, records, radio, and cable TV born of a kind of piracy so defined." In fact, our founding fathers were pirates in many ways. The particular form of piracy that relates to this topic is that the U.S. refused to honor foreign patents, for the first 100 years of its being. This is stated on page 63.

I have pirated a lot of music and never really thought about the moral implications of it... until now. Just like the book says, I think that certain forms of piracy are OK... even beneficial to the owner of the intellectual property. For instance, if someone samples a friends mp3, before deciding to purchase it. If they had not sampled it, they may not have purchased it. 

There is no question that the type of piracy that I have been involved with is wrong and detrimental to the artist. People should not simply take what they want, without the owners permission, or some sort of payment. I guess that's the bottom line.