You're whole post can be summed up in one statement, "It's ok to steal from rich people." Yeah sounds good to me, hell why stop at piracy? Let's all just go break into their houses and take all of their valuables, they can afford it right? |
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Now I mean by inviting them over to watch a movie you bought or listen to a CD. You could even have them come over to play a computer game with you. Now what if you want share something that you payed for but have them be at their own house? Is it suddenly against the law because it is in another house? What If I just built a giant 500 by 500 mile house. Would it then be illegal to share songs between rooms? People create this music and these movies knowing they will be pirated. It does not come to them as a suprise. Isn't it also legal to lend someone a DVD or VHS or a movie? You could do the same with a music CD you payed for. So why can't you do this online? Instead of being on a tape or dvd it is on a hard drive. |
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You're whole post can be summed up in one statement, "It's ok to steal from rich people." Yeah sounds good to me, hell why stop at piracy? Let's all just go break into their houses and take all of their valuables, they can afford it right? |
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*big smile appears on face* |
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I know it sucks for you to admit. But communism doesn't work man. Human nature doesn't allow it to work. It is the perfect system in theory but cannot be applied to humanity. It's been tried as we all know. |
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Hey, I use Shareaza. Knowledge -- and multimedia -- belongs to the world. The RIAA are a bunch of greedy, effed-up bastards. Anyone ever seen the South Park episode Christian Rock Hard? Seriously...like anyone really suffers. |
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Hey don't get me wrong, I download like a mofo. But at least I admit that it's wrong. |
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Which brings us to a future thread in this forum section--people who learn the world through sitcoms and cartoons... |
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If you think it is so wrong then why do you do it? Obviously you have some way to rationalize what you are doing to make it right. How is this... I don't think it is wrong and I could really care fucking less what you have to say about it because you are, to put it simply, wrong! |
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I am just sick of having to back up everything. Anyways, I had a bad day that day. I seriously thought I was going to kill myself so I figured it would not matter. Anyways, I am better today. I just look at this world differently than most people. I don't see like as being important. I see our actions as whatever we want them to be. |
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Just because you see the world differently doesn't make your actions right. |
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Well that's material for a whole different thread. I meant in the eyes of law. |
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The law could say slavery is good. |
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But it doesn't. |
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Like I said, knowledge -- and multimedia, which is a kind of knowledge -- belongs to the world, every person. The RIAA should know this! |
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Insanity is the new avant-garde.
ok my 2 cents: |
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To focus on one state of mind always.
Is it against the law to invite your friends over to listen to music, or to let them watch a movie, etc? No, of course not. There's no point in even bothering to make a law because you'd have alot of trouble enforcing it anyway, without being like "Big Brother" in 1984 (all-seeing). |
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I wouldn't buy the crap anyways. Before I knew about filesharing I watched everything on TV. I never listened to music... How am I stealing something I would not buy anyways. It is not like I am stealing a hard copy of something. I still buy many games, and that is all I ever have bought and it is all I ever will buy except for a select few movies. This has never changed, and filesharing made it no different. When I download something how am I stealing it if I would not buy it anyways? If anything I am slowing other people's downloads down thus saving them money. I have never once bought a single CD and I have only bought a few movies. Even years after filesharing became widely available I did not download music because I did not want to. I eventually decided to download it because it was free. I never would have bought the music. Oh, and one last little thing about music. It is not hard for most of these people to sing because all they are selling is their image. Spears and other artists similar to her don't even sing. They just say words and have their voices altered so much to the point where it is not even them singing it anymore. Do you really think I care if I am stealing from these people who are overpayed? Those people and others like them are the reasons people are dying in other countries because they are so poor. The rich live off of the poor. Personally, I think garbage people should get payed more than these so called artists. |
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Insanity is the new avant-garde.
The fact is your stealing. It doesn't matter if you wouldn't buy it anyway. You can try and argue they are not losing any money, and you may be right, but the fact is you are gaining something which you didn't pay for, which is stealing. |
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Filesharing is like religion -- filesharers are to people who believe filesharing is wrong as religious people are to atheists (or is it vice-versa?). Likewise, it's a very controversial topic, and money and morals are inevitably involved. |
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By the way some people really do think its wrong but they are to lazy or cheap to buy it so they do it anyway. Its like jaywalking. Sure you know you shouldn't do and theres a chance that you might get ran over, and if a cop happens to drive by you will get a ticket, but the next crossing walk is 5 blocks down which is out of your way! |
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