Here, we have a picture from a cartoonist named Chapatte to the Int'l Herald Tribune. As we see on the background, this scene takes place at the Cannes's festival. On the foreground, we can see two celebrities with a fan who looks like a geek, with his T shirt with an internet simbol. This fan looks overjoyed, and he's telling one of the celebrities, that he has pirated all his films. So we see the latter's face like annoyed, actually, this fan is telling him that he stole money from him,or his author's rights. In the left of this celebritie, we can imagine that this is his wife or girlfriend, but this one looks haughty.
In the background, we can see a lot of fans begging for an autograph, an paparazzi taking photographs. On the left, there are two famous people that are waving at the crowd. All this in the red carpet.
So this cartoonist is making a statement of people who are downloading illegal movies, and that is more and more usual nowadays, actually most of the people do it. But this teenager don't represent his generation, there's still young people who buy movies or music, not as much as artists would like, but it's something if you see the prices of those things. If you can have it just in a few minutes on your computer and FREE, why go to a shop, waste time, and spend 12 euros for a CD, or DVD. Those artists can even earn more money doing a concert if they are musicians, or if they are actors, most of them are doing adds for more money. So we are only doing a little damage for enterprises which are earning millions like nothing. Now those enterprises are doing laws to try to stop us from downloading, so they are making downloading more limited than a few years ago. Downloading shouldn't be limited, it's also a way for people to access to culture and knowledge.
What about the self-correction?
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