No one is saying entertainment has to be for free. You made up.
Who said its just entertainment? Again, you made that up.
Culture is not the same as entertainment at all.
I find it depressing that you think every one, including say culturally oppressed Saudis and isolated women, have to think like you do with your presumably culturally and politically free society. Culture is available to you and what ever you try to say, you are part of it and absorb it. Maybe you have had your fill of conscious absorption, but I notice you have had the luxury of it in past years. Not so for many, many other people.
I'm glad you have those freedoms. Im glad I too have those freedoms. Shame neither of us don't represent the situations of every one else on this planet. Perhaps one day we will. But not now by any stretch. But right now, for millions, sites like TPB allow our cultures to infiltrate the rest of the planet. Given that it seems the primary purpose of the US is to promote US or Western style freedom and democracy across the world, what better propaganda machine is there than BitTorrent and sites like TPB?
And get this, people choose, hear that, choose to absorb Western culture. No guns, none of your 18% spending on a war machine. No bombing back to the stone age, no drones or wire taps. No James Bond, Jack Bauer or Jason Bourne, although they love them too. Just ordinary people sucking up Western culture and there for, values. Every time an Arab or Chinese watches a copy of Fringe, or what ever, they are one micro step closer to us. And they get to survive it!!!
Its the spread of ideas, not stupid entertainment. I find that reduction quite ignorant.
Well said sir.
This is also why these countries have firewalls and rules against watching foreign movies/music.
My Iranian friend told me that music is illegal in Iran. As well as movies. He told me he watched Friends in Iran and it made him want to come study in Canada.
Of course after that he was disappointed to see that things are not exactly like Friends over here.
Who said its just entertainment? Again, you made that up.
Culture is not the same as entertainment at all.
I find it depressing that you think every one, including say culturally oppressed Saudis and isolated women, have to think like you do with your presumably culturally and politically free society. Culture is available to you and what ever you try to say, you are part of it and absorb it. Maybe you have had your fill of conscious absorption, but I notice you have had the luxury of it in past years. Not so for many, many other people.
I'm glad you have those freedoms. Im glad I too have those freedoms. Shame neither of us don't represent the situations of every one else on this planet. Perhaps one day we will. But not now by any stretch. But right now, for millions, sites like TPB allow our cultures to infiltrate the rest of the planet. Given that it seems the primary purpose of the US is to promote US or Western style freedom and democracy across the world, what better propaganda machine is there than BitTorrent and sites like TPB?
And get this, people choose, hear that, choose to absorb Western culture. No guns, none of your 18% spending on a war machine. No bombing back to the stone age, no drones or wire taps. No James Bond, Jack Bauer or Jason Bourne, although they love them too. Just ordinary people sucking up Western culture and there for, values. Every time an Arab or Chinese watches a copy of Fringe, or what ever, they are one micro step closer to us. And they get to survive it!!!
Its the spread of ideas, not stupid entertainment. I find that reduction quite ignorant.