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Poll: Music Sharing or Stealing
Faust:
When will people learn that the law should conform to morality and not the other way around? :confused:
Laukev7:
As I have seen in this thread, some people have very different definitions of morality.
[ June 13, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
Pissed_Macman:
MUSIC SHARING IS WRONG AND NO ONE SHOULD DO IT EXCEPT FOR ME DAMMIT!!!!!!
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by Faust:
When will people learn that the law should conform to morality and not the other way around? :confused:
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Who's morality, yours ?
The way things stand right now is pretty cut and dry. Some music is available for free download and some is not. The stuff that is not available for free download, just beware that you might have to face some consequences when downloading/swapping (or rather distributing) the stuff you're not supposed to.
Refalm:
quote:Calum: http://sugarmegs.org/naptoon.jpg
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P2P's are non comparable from library's. In a library, you borrow something, and you have to bring it back, or else...
In a P2P program, such as Gnutella or eDonkey, you copy something from someone, and the person from which you copied, can copy something from you (eDonkey makes you at least share one directory).
It's much easier to copy an OGG file and burn it on a CD, than scanning a book and putting it in a PDF file. And, you don't have to bring the OGG back, because you copied it, not borrowed it. The P2P system is Anarchistic by nature, which I like. You have the total freedom of copying music, and do anything you want with it, without charge.
And about the artists not getting money thing: [apathy]they aren't much getting money anyways[/apathy]. And if the record companies could make an album cheaper, I'd buy the album for sure. It much more easier to walk to a store, buy a CD and listen to it immediatly in high quality, instead of spending hours on downloading mp3's (which may be low-quality), and spending money on empty CD's to put low-quality mp3's on.
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