If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[Arjan Hulsebos]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:29:26 -0400, Albert Bouchard wrote
>                                 I actually think that iTunes of
> something of that sort is  the future. it's simple enough to sample
> some music for free on  iTunes. I do, however, think they should be
> lowering their price not  raising it.

I think so, too, but just look at who's developing these kind of new
distribution systems. Not the major record labels, not the RIAA. They're the
ones that have been kicking and screaming, trying to stop any kind of
development in this direction. If the music industry had been initiating, or
at least supporting, these kind of developments, illegal downloading (which is
_not_ illegal in the Netherlands, BTW), wouldn't be as a big problem as it is
today. They more or less created their own problem.

> I know this might be out of the imagination of most people but what
> we  have to get used to is that intellectual property is real. Just  
> because it doesn't take up a lot of physical space doesn't meant
> that  it is worthless. The air is free but if we take it for granted
> we  could end up very sick and sorry. Al

True, but imposing ridiculously high fines for downloading is not going to
solve the problem, just like the Sharia won't stop theft.

Gr,

Arjan H

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