Sheesh, I step away for a little while and have 7 pages of shit to waddle through.
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Originally Posted by cbooty
Was Ghandi a thief for "stealing" salt?
A few parallels as there is zero unit cost for both and the only value each has is what's afforded by laws the majority of people find unfair.
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unfair or
inconvenient? I say the latter.
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Originally Posted by dzagama
How can a market for digital content exist, under the premise that the digital content is the marketing, and the t-shirt or concert ticket is the actual product?
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It's people who do not want to acknowledge the truth of their actions who claim the digital content is not the product. We don't buy albums for album covers, we buy them for the music on the disc. People know full-well that they are stealing the material, but don't want to call a spade a spade.
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Originally Posted by j2x
Please point to an article that spells out conclusively that music sales are down due to illegal digital distribution. I don't believe such a study has been made- but I would be very curious to read it if it has.
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I have found articles that say digital download sales are better than physical album sales. I have also found articles that question whether or not illegal downloads
truly impact album sales. Personally, those seeds of doubt were not planted on me. I absolutely do believe they do. I buy a song or two at a time from itunes without ever buying a full album. I imagine there are millions of people out there doing the same thing, but from free sites, not itunes.
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Originally Posted by cbooty
So, what I'm curious about is all the people vigorously defending copyright law, do you:
-Not have *any* shared, backedup music or mix cd/tapes (is so, really??)
-Not watch any copyrighted material on Youtube (that's stealing ad revenue from original creator)?
-Ever sing happy birthday? (you're supposed to pay performance rights for it - that's why no restaurants sing it)
-Use a TIVO or Slingbox?
-Watch a sporting event with a dozen friends (again public performance)?
The concept of stealing gets muddy pretty fast with intellectual property.
My point is this is not a black/white issue.
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1.
Happy Birthday to you - wikipedia. This case went to the Supreme Court. Then again, in 20 years, this song becomes public domain.
2. Do people who think crime is wrong still jaywalk occasionally? Or roll through stop signs? Or change lanes without signalling? All of these things are offenses and are punishable by fines. No one is perfect, dude.
3. What does having a TIVO have to do with being a perfect individual who never strays?