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Posted by D.E. on 10/17/74 11:27
"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> schreef in bericht
news:1127355874.925156.176270@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hardly a justification.
But it is, besides that inmy country downloading is totally legal
the uploading part isn`t ;o)
> 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.
Ah but if I got one of those enterprise replicators and replicated
your car, would it be 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.
Yep and sharing brings them to a wider audience.
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