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   From: amro@tuig.nl   
      
   It was teh Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:59:39 +0100mteenth and "Graybags"   
    shook teh great alt.fan.douglas-adams by sayink:   
      
   >   
   >"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   
      
   If the artist/s/ agreed to let their music be played on the radio for   
   instance, they also agreed to it being taped. That's why you have to   
   pay radio/tv taxes and stuff. If I buy a blank cd-r I have to pay   
   rights because I might record something. So I'm paying. I'm not   
   stealing, nobody is forcing artist/s/ to bring out music. If you   
   tape/duplicate/bootleg their music and sell it, then you're stealing.   
      
   Amro, feeling stupid 'cause off-crosposting the obvious   
      
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