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   From: gbas@lineone.net   
      
   "Ookie Wonderslug"  wrote in message   
   news:sho8mvce6sjpmct4mqidotogt9909i4qp5@4ax.com...   
   > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:03:33 +0100, "Graybags"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >   
   > >"Ronald Cole"  wrote in message   
   > >news:m3d6e3q5oa.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com...   
   > >> Matt Griffin  writes:   
   > >> > a 12 year old shoplifter is still a shoplifter.   
   > >>   
   > >> How do you explain the difference to a child between recording and   
   > >> listening to music on a radio and recording and listening to music on   
   > >> a computer?   
   > >   
   > >Stealing is stealing. However, the odd song recorded from the radio is...   
   > >1. Not copying thousands of files and sharing them (possibly for   
   commercial   
   > >gain)   
   > >2. Untraceable.   
   > >   
   > >Taking a pound from your mum's bedside table is wrong, but robbing a bank   
   > >waving a gun around is the one that's likely to land you in deep do-do.   
   > >   
   > >See the difference, now? It's called scale.   
   > >   
   >   
   > But it is not stealing. Stealing is when you deprive someone of their   
   > property without their permission.   
      
   The music is the property of the artist. You don't have permission to have   
   it without paying for it. That's stealing.   
      
   Graybags   
      
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