If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[Ian Abrahams]

Books, CDs etc must all be priced to amortise the fact that a percentage will get sold on again. I've heard of artists agains taping but I've never heard of any against secondhand shops.




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From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:28:02 PM
Subject: Re: If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

On 25 Mar 2009, at 09:46, gary shindler wrote:
> I even try not to buy used copies, the artist doesn't get any pay for that.


Well, the artist _did_ get paid when the first person bought it.  :)  Otherwise, with this argument, we may as well say that renting an apartment is immoral because the architect or construction workers aren't getting a continuing cut of the building they designed or built. :)

Cheers,
Carl

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