Posted by David C. on 11/15/42 11:31

"FunkyDevil" <qs8rzr001@sneakemail.com> writes:
>
> Paying for their product does not make you a good person , it just
> makes them rich and more aggressive towards the consumer.

I hope you someday spend months or years of your life working on
something (a book, a song, a software title), that everybody in the
world wants, and you never see a penny of profit because everybody is
trading pirated copies.

Maybe then, you'll change your mind.

If you think someone is charging too much for a product, you're free to
refuse to buy it. You are not free to steal it.

> For the RIAA you just have to search for ( RIAA PAYOLA ) or ( RIAA
> PRICE FIXING )
>
> For the MPAA ,their crimes are documented as far back as 1948 , here
> are the links to their past crimes.
>
> U.S. V. PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC. , 334 U.S. 131 (1948)

Still doesn't give you any right, moral or otherwise, to steal from
them.

It is just as illegal to steal from a criminal as it is from anybody
else.

-- David

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