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File Sharing Without the Fear | |
| Subject: | Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar | |
| Date: | 2003-10-25 23:23:03 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Response to: Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
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| I'm not so sure that a survey of the public at large would bear out your intuitions. You might be surprised. Also, whether what you want to do is stealing is simply a legal question. Stealing is unlawful taking, and under the prevailing laws copyright violation is stealing regardless of how one feels about it. Now, whether it is wrong is a different matter: that is an ethical question. The law might be less than fully just. But in the light of such important ethical issues as whether their is a right to healthcare, or a right to privacy (abortion, homosexuality), or whether it was just to invade Iraq, and so on, quibbling over whther one might possibly be justified in stealing tunes seems hopelessly shallow and self-indulgent. | ||
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Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
2003-10-27 00:41:59 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
You are right, it really dose come down to more of an ethical question than anything else, and at this point, I highly doubt the question would be re-opened to the general public. But how ethical is this (actually happened to someone I know) - An independant musician with no contract anywhere gave verbal consent (nothing in writting) to distribute his work (I was there at the time, so I heard him say it was o.k. at least for those couple soungs, even gave us both MP3s that he himself had made of his work) - then later he got angree with this other guy (fortunately not me) and threatened to sue! - Nothing ever happened, but would you call just that threat ethical - after verbal permission was already granted!?? (All he cared about at the time was getting his work out there, and did not want to sign any contracts, reguardless of how favorible to hime they were)- Now I knew this guy (the musician) since highschool. and I say at best that was just plain being an a**hole. But I have to admit, he is not that bright anyway - he drooped out of school with only 2 months left to go in his senior year, and had enough credits that he litteraly would have graduated if he did nothing at all in those 2 months except show up!.......
