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Poll: Music Sharing or Stealing
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
How can you see the absurdity of one thing but not the other?
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It's not clear as to what you are referring to here so I am hesitant to respond but I will expand on the "someone outside your window" anology. That would be absurd, same as if you gathered a group of people in your front room to listen to a CD or the reading of a book, it would be equally absurd to determine that as stealing, it's not even sharing. I don't think anyone is going to be hasling you for that. What I would term as stealing, is the duplication and distribution of the material. You can only share what is rightfully yours, but in the context of music copyright, you do not have that right when you purchase (or otherwise) the material. The right to copy remains the with the artist, publisher or studio. Like it or not, recorded music, movies, books etc are commodities.
flap:
Actually if it's a public gathering then that would be illegal.
quote:What I would term as stealing, is the duplication and distribution of the material.
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How can you label one thing with a term that means something completely different? What you're really objecting to, then, is the "duplication and distribution of the material" and not "stealing". For a start, stealing refers to taking something, not giving it away.
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
What you're really objecting to, then, is the "duplication and distribution of the material" and not "stealing". For a start, stealing refers to taking something, not giving it away.
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Yes, and this is why it is such a grey area, for me.
You can not (or you are not supposed to) duplicate copyright material. This is what the "sharing" P2P networks do. They allow the material to be duplicated and that breaks the copyright agreement. The artist is no longer in control of the material. Your idea of sharing is a little bit askew, I think. You are of the opinion that giving it away is not stealing which would be true if you purchased a CD and then gave it to a friend. But to duplicate the CD and then give it to a friend, in the eyes of the record companies, that as stealing because the recording is copyright protected.
lazygamer:
Ok this is the way I see it. It doesn't really matter whether it's stealing or sharing in reality, because RIAA has lost the right for anyone to be concerned about harming them(not saying it does harm them, but if it did).
Canadian Lover:
It is sharing in my opoion, butThe RIAA and recording artists think it's "stealing there copyrights"
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