well, disney has a huge lobby pushing the unreasonable extension of
copyright, therefore they make a great example. as for tower, i was
replying to a post about taking a cd from a store, so tower makes a good
amount of sense, as i'm not sure how one could shoplift from warpmart ;)
John Reading wrote:
quoted 46 lines I love how whenever the discussion about pirating music comes up on this
>I love how whenever the discussion about pirating music comes up on this
>list, people always use examples with Tower, Disney, Warner Bros.,
>Atlantic.
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>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]
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>>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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