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Originally Posted by chrisg967  I agree with Jefferson and Tristanrobin. "Sharing" music files over the internet is stealing. It is not sharing. Real sharing is loaning someone your purchased copy of a recording and then getting it back. Real sharing is playing your purchased copy of a recording for someone who is in the same room as you. The musicians and songwriters put effort into their creations, and we as consumers should put in some effort of our own (read that as earning money) to purchase a copy of their work. | This made me think of something...
That's really what is happening in file sharing. It's just that instead of lending someone the material, they're sharing the digital files on the CD that someone already purchased. When do you consider sharing to not be sharing anymore? When it goes digital? Or a certain amount of people that get to hear the music?
I mean, I could send out a purchased CD of mine to go around to all my friends, and their friends, and they could legally rip the CD onto their computer for listening purposes (keep in mind this is a feature in all Windows systems and in all CDs made, thus perfectly legal). This is essentially the same thing, the only difference is I am literally giving someone material. File sharing just skips the step of physically putting the CD into your drive, but reaches the same ends. I don't see how this is so much worse than the other.
The original CD was purchased. Stealing would be for someone to go into the store and physically steal the CD, then rip the CD onto other people's computers. Quote:
That's fine, you're expressing your opinion.
You're also justifying stealing.
| No, I'm justifying file sharing. Look at my above response to chris. "If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, then have faith; if you want to be a disciple of truth, then search" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Last edited by Katczinsky; 01-27-2007 at 10:26 AM.
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