Article:		File Sharing Without the Fear
Subject:		Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
Date:		2003-10-25 05:36:15
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
This is true, I amso might add, it's rare that those actually affected by a law have the oppertunity to vote on it directly, and anymore there is no technical reson why the average Joe Blow could not directly participate in such things (hell by using modern technoligy, odviously with some sort of secured connection, it could be done in just a few seconds of your time, right from your bedroom!) - but I would be willing to bet that if you took a survay on the matter - I think you would find that the majarity have either no opion at all, or simply do not feel that this activity is wrong in anyway, with those that feel it is stealing being left in a fairly low minnaritty.

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• Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
  2003-10-25 23:23:03  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  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.