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Originally Posted by Katczinsky  No, you are completely right. Thanks for your knowledge on the subject and enlightening me. However, I still feel as if something just speaks to me that the punishments the RIAA is dealing out, and to whom, is far more 'immoral' than any damage done with file-sharing. I can perfectly understand it's illegality, however, even with file sharing, these artists still lead a very rich and self-indulged life where they can quite literally do or buy what ever they want. While on the other hand, the poor college kid or the fourteen year old that is getting sued for $10,000, is having his or her life ruined, and perhaps changed drastically. Perhaps it is this that lead me to cloud my judgment and go on a rather slippery slope. But that was essentially what I was trying to say, but perhaps I went too far. | That's absurd.
The overwhelming majority of musicians - even professional ones - do NOT come anywhere near the opulent life you delusionally believe them to be living.
For every rich artist/musician, there are literally tens of thousands who are dirt poor.
You're right... HUGE fines are stupid, as well as virtually impossible to collect. But good grief, let's stop stealing and infringing on people's earnings. |