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Posted by Amun on 09/22/05 02:52
"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1127355874.925156.176270@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hardly a justification. Being the owner of something means you can not
> only set the price, but also decide whether to sell or not. If I
> decide to steal a car, the fact that the owner hadn't put it on the
> market doesn't change the fact that I've just taken a car that isn't
> mine. There are many compelling arguments for distinguishing file
> sharing from theft, but this is not one of them. Also, simply being
> out of print (thought they had a different term) doens't mean out of
> circulation - old record stores, individual collectors, E*bay offer a
> few of the avenues for obtaining hard-to-find music.
>
So if someone buys a used record from an old record store or ebay or just
downloads a copy off the net or gets and mp3 made.
What difference does that make to RIAA ?
Or even the artist involved ?
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