LOL!
You used the "OK"
Quote:
quoted 2 lines The legitimacy of the present copyright structure is integral> The legitimacy of the present copyright structure is integral
> to the issue of whether it's okay to download music for free or not.
The quote is still in error, just like downloading music for free is.
Take the copyright away and the ownership remains as does the theft.
That free record offer still stands, you need a cd or record player
though.
quoted 2 lines -----Original Message-----> -----Original Message-----
> From: pixilated [mailto:pixilated@alum.dartmouth.org]quoted 14 lines Do you understand the meaning of legitimacy? The issue of downloading>
>
> Do you understand the meaning of legitimacy? The issue of downloading
> music for free is only an issue because of the construction
> of ownership
> of that music. It seems to me that you are using "okay" in
> terms of some
> transcendent moral standard from which it would follow that if someone
> produces a musical work, he should get paid for it if he wants to be
> paid for its use since it's his. This begs the question of *ownership*
> of that music in whatever form. (This is an example of petitio
> principii.)
>
>
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