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Posted by FatKat on 10/07/27 11:27
D.E. wrote:
> "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)
I don't know what country that is, so that's hardly determinative.
There's also a rather vague idea of what constitues "legal". Though I
tend to define as "legal" everything not criminal AND everything you
can't get sued for, some will only focus on what's criminal. In that
vein, anti-trust is supposedly legal in the UK, even though you can get
sued for it.
>
> > 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?
Ahh, If somebody put you through one of those replicators, and raped
your replicated clone silly, would that nasty Trekkie be guilty of
rape? On a side note, did you ever wonder where all that extra matter
for the replicators come from? You want to know my theory? It has
everything to do with why they never showed bathrooms in 40 years of
"Star Trek".
>
> > 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.
And to whose benefit does that point address? Those who actually made
the music, and have to be happy knowing that the music they worked hard
to create is being enjoyed by more people, but that they'll be less
likely to actually see any hard money for that hard work? Or maybe
it's the music industry insiders. Of course it's hard to feel sympathy
for these guys - although you have to wonder if these guys are as
parasitic and useless as many would imagine. After over a century of
recorded music publishing, these guys are still around. Perhaps they
form an indispensable, if unpalatable link between those who make the
music and those who enjoy it.
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