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Old 04-16-2009, 01:32 AM
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Didn't you learn not to steal while growing up? I don't care if you think it's "just music," but unless you think it's OK to go into the store and take things from the shelves w/o paying it's the same thing.

Moreover, the new $150k damages penalty that can come your way per song for file-sharing now ought to scare you off.
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Old 04-16-2009, 09:14 AM
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Didn't you learn not to steal while growing up? I don't care if you think it's "just music," but unless you think it's OK to go into the store and take things from the shelves w/o paying it's the same thing.
You're not "taking" the same thing - the physical CD manufacturing process weighs heavily into the price tag, and the artist actually gets very little. For that reason, so-called "new marketing" is far more important in music than anywhere else - and this is the real reason behind the RIAA's actions: to protect the absurd profits of the labels.

That doesn't mean stealing is 'right' or even morally ambiguous, but it does mean that the tide is shifting away from what you're talking about and toward a new music model. There is no reason to support the "old" system any more than there is reason to buy dictaphone recordings or fly in an autogyro.
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