Lumberjack
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join:2003-01-18
Newport News, VA
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Re: Give 'em hell!!
So lets all just STEAL for now, that's OK. It's perfectly just to bust into my neighbors house and take his flat screen TV because they are too EXPENSIVE for me. Oh wait, that's stealing from somebody else and not right.
Fine then, I'll go to the DEALERSHIP to steal my new car because it's so EXPENSIVE and the guy that designed it doesn't get anything. So if I steal from the dealership, that will eventually causes prices to drop. Wow, I feel so morally correct!
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Cyron
join:2002-09-24
Charlotte, NC
1 edit | Actually, I went over to my neighbors house and made a perfect replica of his flat panel TV. He didn't seem to mind, but boy was Sony pissed.
Go steal a clue. |
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Lumberjack
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join:2003-01-18
Newport News, VA
| I forgot it makes it ok to 'copy' things. Hmm, let me go see if the Secret Service will mind if I copy a few $100 bills.
I don't support the RIAAs stupid efforts to sue the world, but if law dictates that copying copyrighted material is illegal and one gets busted for doing just that then I really don't see the problem with them getting sued for financial loss by the company they stole from. Do you?
If you really want to get them where it hurts, stop stealing and only support the bands. Buy records from self produced albums, go to concerts, DON'T BUY it if you think it's expensive. But why steal? Because you can copy byte for byte makes it fine? That's sad. If the band wanted to give it away then they would publish it themselves. Some do, in fact, a lot do. Why all pissy at the RIAA? Why not be pissed at the bands that use them to sell their material?
I suppose people will always find excuses to rationalize their so called 'just' activities.
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Cyron
join:2002-09-24
Charlotte, NC | I never said copyright infringement was legal, or morally right. Sharing music with people you don't know is not the same as stealing a TV from your neighbors house. |
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Lumberjack
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join:2003-01-18
Newport News, VA
| Sharing music isn't all that bad either. It's the folks who download it for their own without ever buying anything that's the real problem. That probably does more to raise priceses.
My biggest complaint is the morons that use the "the RIAA isn't paying the artist anything so we should be able to take it anyway". It's kinda like a sad ass robbin hood. Steal from the rich, to keep for ourselves. So what, one day the lables may lower their prices and give more to the bands and all the 'stealing' will stop, yeah right.
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beers90125
join:2003-07-24
Kankakee, IL | reply to Lumberjack
It's a consumer revolution and it's a clear call to the recording industry to reform their decades old business model that is no longer viable in this day and age. |
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