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...worst menace on Cambridge’s chancy sidewalks. That distinction is reserved for the sidewalk blockers. These are groups of two or more pedestrians who choose to walk abreast instead of single file when I’m already 10 minutes late for class and are walking so slowly behind them that I might actually be walking backwards...
...with their performance. In 1980, the CEOs of Fortune 500 large corporations received, on average, 70 times larger annual compensations than their average employees. Under the Bush Administration, comparable CEOs have come to give themselves 600 to 1,000 times larger annual compensations than their rank-and-file employees whose pay has stagnated. To pay for such self-dealt compensations, corporate aristocrats layoff their workers, cut ordinary employees’ health benefits, and outsource jobs abroad. Under the Bush Administration, over five million Americans have lost their health benefits, and the U.S. has lost over 2.7 million quality manufacturing jobs...
...most all Harvard file-sharers could tell you right away that swapping mp3s is illegal, and some would likely go so far as to say that despite the fact that they do it, they believe it to be “wrong” at some level, perhaps because they fear it destroys the incentive model for creative works. But if Harvard undergraduates truly believe file-sharing to be wrong, and they do it anyway, this implies at some level that the only reason we don’t all walk into stores and take whatever we like is because...
...don’t think this is true. I think the reason so many people share files over the Internet with blatant disregard for the law is because they’re unable to internalize the reasons why these things are illegal. Downloading copyrighted recordings off Kazaa is too easy—too much a natural extension of the rest of our uses for the Internet and too far removed from any plausible impact on music industry sales (50 Cent probably isn’t starving). Hard as the RIAA might try, their ad campaign and their well-publicized lawsuits...
...varied responses across business schools running this software are a testament to how complicated that question is. So are the conflicted feelings of undergraduate file sharers. We simply don’t have a clear picture in our heads of whether we equate these newly christened illegal or immoral actions with the older ones we’re more comfortable with. The battles over technology law and technology ethics that are becoming increasingly common as people do more and more business (and therefore have more and more conflicts of interest) over the Internet all more or less center around...