Puntomaus opened this issue on Jul 13, 2003 ยท 39 posts
melanie posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 9:43 AM
I'm glad Puntomaus brought this up. It always bothers me when newbies get flamed, when maybe they really don't know Kazaa is not legitimate. I can tell you that there really are naive people out there who don't know. One of my older sisters (she's in her 60's, a senior citizen) discovered Kazaa to download music when her son showed it to her. Both she and her son honestly didn't know it was a bad thing to do. They just thought it was really fun to find free stuff and they went wild downloading music. Well, when the news broke about Kazaa recently, my sister e-mailed me and said she only just found out that she was doing wrong by downloading music from there. She honestly DID NOT know it was wrong. You see, my sister only just recently got her first computer and she's still new at discovering the world of the Internet. There's no way she could have known it was wrong. She's not a bad person, she's a lovely lady with a very caring heart. She just didn't know because no one told her. So, let's not immediately assume that everyone should automatically be born with the knowledge of which places are legit and which aren't. It's not fair to execute someone if they legitimately don't know they were doing something wrong, especially if they have very little experience with the Internet and download sites. Besides, rudeness has always bothered me. I think people should learn to be more tolerant and be willing to teach people in a tactful way that they were doing something wrong, not by saying unkind things and seeming to get some enjoyment out of making another person uncomfortable. Melanie