Posted by D.E. on 01/19/96 11:27

"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> schreef in bericht
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> D.E. wrote:
>> "FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> schreef in bericht
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>> > 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.

The Netherlands.

> 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.

Yep nice , what should I do with this info?
Print it out and wipe my ass with 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?

Well we know what files you downloaded now, don`t we?
Look i don`t fuck the music files, I just listen to them, and I paid
through amny channels, so don`t be so silly.

> 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".

Hmm they have. So you are again full of shit and that for an asshole.
release it man.

>> > 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,

Yep.

> but that they'll be less
> likely to actually see any hard money for that hard work?

They get money, through the other channels.

> 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.

Perhaps they were, but that is not neccessary anymore., oh wait
kill p2p and they are the rulers again, ah you are one of them
we have come to dethrown you.

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