It Was Time for "The Talk": Parenting Anti Piracy Edition
Yesterday I had to have "The Talk" with my son. I walked into my 12 year old son's room the other day and was shocked by what he was looking at on-line. He found a site loaded with torrents of whole, cracked, console games. "Dad, isn't this great? Look at all the games we can get for free. How do I get them?" "You don't, it's stealing." "No it's not. It's downloading, they are right here on-line." "Trust me, it's stealing. The food you eat is paid for with money from game sales. You are stealing from us. Do you want to eat tomorrow?" "Yes." "Then don't download those games. . . . and tell your friends." I went through this with him once before. I was really proud of myself for doing it, and delusional to think it was sufficient. When he was about 6, my son heard Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on a television show and really enjoyed the s...