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Originally Posted by cbooty
Basically in India the British government tried to impose a salt tax and made it illegal to pick up naturally occurring salt. This gave a very abundant commodity (salt) a value that it would not normally have had and which could only be maintained with strongarm legal tactics.
My point is there's a parallel with digital distribution because there's $0 cost to produce additional units, just like there was no cost to produce salt. Ghandi simply picked up salt in an act of defiance and I think a lot of file sharers think they are doing the same thing.
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It's like we're talking past each other.
Fuck the RIAA, yes. But if they provide a service that artists want, let them exist. It's artists who are dumbfucks for whoring themselves.
Regarding the salt, I pointed out how you were simplifying a complex issue. The British had a monopoly on all the salt production in India.
The RIAA has no such monopoly on production or distribution. They are not preventing anyone from producing and distributing music independently.
If you want to kill them, completely avoid RIAA-backed music.
I'll say this over, and over, ad infinitum.
If you want to legitimize stealing digital content in some misguided attempt to "bring down" the RIAA, you're helping destroy a potentially massive market, even after their demise.