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Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob
Aren't you a pussy.
Bob's such an asshole for saying people should pay for things if things have a price tag on them.
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Just because it has a price tag? You must have had some kind of personal trauma where someone took something you "put a price tag on".
What if someone steals something and then puts a price tag on it and resells it to you? Companies you support have done this.
What if the original creator of something says "I want to give this away for free", but a 3rd party won't let them? Or copies their idea and sells it anyway? I feel I now have the right to have that for free, as an extra "fuck you" to the people who shouldn't have a say in the matter.
Apple doesn't want DRM, the record companies do, the companies that sell MP3 players don't, the artists don't. Even though they didn't create anything, and in my mind, despite what a contract says, have no right to dictate any terms of price or use, the RIAA has final say about who should pay for what, and what you should do with it if you did pay.
Do you agree with having music that is so locked down it's a hassle to transfer to another computer? Do you think it's ok to pay for that? Now that iTunes finally has DRM free music, they decided it would be a good idea to charge you another 30 cents per song
that you already bought, to be able to use it the way "thieves" have been able to use their music all along. Sorry, but if you cause me 1 minute of aggravation, I'm going elsewhere. I don't have time for stress for a damn song.
Yes, the RIAA should be brought down by anyone that can do it. Thieves will do it because they happen to be smarter than the people who buy an mp3 player, and then call all kinds of tech support to figure out why they can't play their legally purchased music collection. I used to hear these calls non stop and it drove me crazy.
What if the RIAA eventually vanishes, and the people that have been making the music all along say they don't really care how it's distributed or what it costs? (some say this openly now) Will you retroactively agree that it's now ok to download music?