Lumberjack
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join:2003-01-18
Newport News, VA
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Re: Give 'em hell!!
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
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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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