To be or not to be "pirate"

This would be my first entry in this blog and i wanted to make it a little bit controversial from the start. This Blog is a product of an assigment of my MBA program, nonetheless i feel it will be a great idea of trying to image or create a controversy situation similar what business face in the dynamic enviroment of technology.

piracy as defined in "wikipedia" is robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on shore, without permission from a nation. Althought this is not a perfect match in the business world of entertainement, it has some similar aspects. In our class we have seen the different situation in the business enviroment in which a market make change hands because the use of piracy. One clear example of this event, it's within the range of music players. Not along time ago, aproximately 8 years, we were all use to the idea of purchasing CD and play them on our cd players; Company such as sony,toshiba,samsung, etc. were all making a great deal of profits; also one of the benefits of this new technology of cd players were the artist who sold their cd at a much faster rate. But then came the party pooper, The multimedia piracy, then it came one of the many free developers software that allow each and everyone of us to share music among us, this software were call point to point, since the exchange of information was using this protocol what main characteristics is the connection among two computers over a wide network (WLAN). These newly created software created a total change in the industry. The decreasing sales in cd's caused a controversial and difficult situations for music players providers and artist. As result of this, there was a need for a change of strategy among the different players in the industry, this idea was well absorb by apple with the introduction of the Ipod.

This make me actually want to create a new controversy, since im curios ABG. There is a lot of money being involved by providing online information. One of example to this is Lynda, who main revenue comes from the selling of useful information for individual learning.

This company basic business model is the collection of a register fee for viewing this information. but what will happen if a guy like me, who's main idea is to create a blog starts posting this information without charging anything, for free, for nada,.... Would this change their business model?, is this a crime?. if it so, please tell me, since i"m going to continue this tool to provide useful information for those of us wanting to be better at technology.

If you have any opinion regarding this post, you are more than welcome to post a comment about it.