TheCrackedJack
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- Apr 3, 2006
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I think it does boil down to morals, rather than legality. Quoting the law won't get you anywhere in this subject, because everyone breaks the law all the time. By speeding, jumping red lights, talking on the cellphone while driving. Yes, they can have disastrous effects especially if you kill someone while doing such a thing, but still, everyone does it. The same goes for music. If we had to abide perfectly by the law, you would be very, very restricted on how and when you can play the music you yourself have bought. You wouldn't be able to rip it to put on your pc for your own pleasure. I don't think you'd be able to play it in front of assemblies, nor should you be able to find user tabs, or cover the music in front of assemblies. Does everybody abide by such rules? I don't think so. So I'd rather have someone arguing that piracy is wrong because it is immoral than because it is illegal. Maybe then, you'd be able to convince the others about it.
I just want to say, great post there. I totally agree.
Might as well touch on this as well. Since, I love punching holes in your Swiss Cheese style arguments. I touched on what the word take means before, which you improperly used there.Stealing digital music is like stealing cable (to continue the TV metaphor). You ARE taking something that you did NOT pay for. Stop justifying it by getting into arguments about semantics: no, it's not a physical thing you're stealing. It's called "Intellectual Property". This is why IDEAS can be stolen, and many companies have all sorts of legal documents that outline how you will be in trouble if you share these ideas with other folks after you leave. Even though the ideas will still be at the original company. What kind of an idiot thinks that only physical things can be stolen at a detriment to the person who originally owned it?
Your right, ideas can be stolen. And that's a grey area. If Ben Franklin was my neighbor back in the day, would I be wrong if I was able to replicate his methods by myself (IE steal his idea) and keep it to myself and just use it on my ranch? In other words, not try to take credit and profit from his ideas, leaving him be? Stealing ideas becomes wrong and illegal when you try to profit on those ideas by not giving compensation. The music equivelant of that would be making copies of the cd and then trying to sell the copies for a profit. Only an idiot wouldn't make the distinction.