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Originally Posted by Mambo
Unfortunately, I strongly disagree with most of you in the matter of stealing and crime. I think the biggest crime is preventing people from free access to INFORMATION. In the 21th century!
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Information may want to be free, but this case is about
entertainment, and whether someone has a right to take for free what some entertainer should get paid for. Say what you will about the trial and its punishment, but the point of it is to protect the people who should be making money off of their work.
If you (and a lot of other people) want to just have everything for free, that's fine, but you'll find that without any monetary compensation, a lot of entertainers aren't going to be entertaining you any longer. And remember, if you don't like what they're selling,
you don't have to buy... not even the one good song. It's not oxygen... it's a frivolous purchase. It's pointless to complain about the unfairness of a service or industry, if you continue to buy from them, and don't tell them what you don't like. Don't buy the CD at all, and tell the record companies why. Let them figure it out, if they want your money.
Easy for me to say? Yes, it is. I buy no more than 1-2 CDs a year, and chiefly because I research the album until I know it's worth my money.