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Poll: Music Sharing or Stealing
Laukev7:
quote: When have I suggested that musicians shouldn't be redeemed for their work?
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You're taking my quotes out of context again. I have never suggested such a thing! I suggested that your idea of spreading out music was not an efficient way to pay artists, and that paying for music as taxes was a better method.
quote: Here you seem to be suggesting that some people are not "entitled" to information i.e. those who haven't, possibly because they're not able, paid for it.
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I don't see how. "Entitled" can also mean that someone gave them the music. And I have already said that art in itself is not information.
quote: Actually most of the ideas I'm talking about here have been specifically suggested by Stallman.
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RMS does propose free distribution, but paid with taxes. And he does not propose to forbid commercial redistribution. As I said before, you're incorporating ideas from the GPL in a different context (although not all of them).
[ June 15, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
Laukev7:
quote: Not exactly. For example, commercial redistribution could be prohibited, as this isn't a freedom that would benefit society, unlike with free software.
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Wow. So then, neither businesses nor individuals will make any profit. How would you justify such a law? And even without businesses, you still have the sheer number of people giving away your music.
quote: The whole point of stealing is that it's about depriving someone of something they own. Copying doesn't leave the artist without their work, so even if you don't agree with it, copying is not analagous to theft.
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I believe I have already explained that it is of their profit that they are being bereft. So, if you are writting an exam, and someone copies on you, and the teacher give both of you a zero, would you not agree that while the other person has not stolen your exam, he has somehow denied you a good mark? If theft is not good enough for you, then some other term should be given, but copying music is still morally wrong if the third parties do not pay for them.
[ June 15, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
emh:
Don't forget the most important question in this topic?
What does God need with a starship??
:D
Okay, I'll shut up now.
Laukev7:
Uh?
emh:
It's a heated debate, I just thought I'd lighten it up a bit by injecting something completely nonsensical. Ignore me.
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