Rick <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> He didn't advocate anything that amounts to theft.
I actually am a little troubled by the use of terms like 'piracy' and
'theft' when we talk about copyright infringement. In this case, you
are not actually denying someone else their property, at most you
are denying a 'potential' sale. I'm not saying its OK to do that,
just that we don't need to create an artificial moral equivalence
with armed thugs. When we hand out harsher punishments for copying
files than we do for armed robbery, something is seriously wrong in
our society.
Because lets be honest here, 'Intellectual Property' is an artificial
construct of our society. It exists only because we all agree that
it does. We, as a society, can decide to radically change it and
society could still function. If the record labels disappeared and
musicians had to make more of their living from merchandising and
touring, well, somehow I think the crops would still get planted and
the world would keep spinning.
Thad
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