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Poll: Music Sharing or Stealing
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
It is not stealing however you look at it. Even if you feel that artists should be paid every time a copy of their work is made, you're talking about paying for a service, not a product. If someone builds a road and charges a toll for everyone who drives down it, then if 3 people drive down it without paying you wouldn't say those people have "stolen" the use of the road, would you?
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I wouldn't, just because it sounds weird, but the law would.
LordWiccara:
big time "artists" (if i can even call them that) have enough money to let their songs get distributed for free. they remind me of micro$hit: greedy and horrible at writing.
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
No, I'm not saying that. You suggested that artists making their work available for free can't be a good idea as a large number of people aren't doing it already. You were suggesting that if a majority group of (stupid) people do something, it must be right.
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I said "large group of people," referring to the artists and labels that make the most money and are therefore the best at getting money. not fair money or honest money, but they are the best at getting money.
flap:
quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain:
I wouldn't, just because it sounds weird, but the law would.
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Don't be ridiculous; of course it wouldn't. And why call it "stealing"? Why not say they've "murdered" the road? Or they've "illegally immigrated into" the road?
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by ArmTheHomeless:
big time "artists" (if i can even call them that) have enough money to let their songs get distributed for free. they remind me of micro$hit: greedy and horrible at writing.
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I really think that is beside the point. If they can earn more money they should, even if they don't "need" it. If you take that attitude no one but the poorest of people can have stuff because no one else "needs" it. "I don't need a new car, but a family in chine sure could." You can't live your life based one what you need or esle you will be held back forever from achieving great things so that you can have "stuff" that you don't "need."
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