I love how whenever the discussion about pirating music comes up on this
list, people always use examples with Tower, Disney, Warner Bros.,
Atlantic.
When all the stuff getting pirated here is really small underground
labels like Skam, Eastern Dev, Warp, Rephlex.
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> From: Josh Steiner [mailto:joschi@eds.org]quoted 1 line c wrote:> c wrote:quoted 13 lines you dont see the difference? really? in your first example, tower> >
> you dont see the difference? really? in your first example, tower
> records is out a cd, they literally loose $5 ... in the
> second case the
> only deprivation of resources is to the people paying the
> bills for the
> internet bandwidth. the traditional concept of theft just does not
> apply to ideas (mp3's are just ideas expressed electronically,
> magnetically, optically, what have you) and only because
> disney et all
> have a vested interest in turning ideas into property do our laws
> suddently reflect this.
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