Alllow me to answer (though you did not direct this question to me)
Back in the 80's if I loved one specific song on an album and that song was not available as a single, I had to buy the whole album. Companies did not care whether I just liked one song or all. So I either had to content myself by just hearing the song in my head or let the company con me into buying the whole album. Back when it was THEM stealing our money in this system where a young teen really wanted a song and had no other way to have it than to pay for the whole album. No one back then was arguing in favor of the little guy.
Someone asked: would you illegally download a car if you could ? Well we can't, can we ? So as a result if we want a car, we must accept anything they charge us, and sometimes it's so ridiculous, 100k, even more for some cars, plus taxes, repairs, gas ... They con the living heck out of us because a car cannot be downloaded. You could argue that nobody forces me to get a car. True, but what about food ? You cannot decide to stop eating cause food is getting artificially too expensive. You must eat no matter how expensive food is and nobody seem to realize how they abuse the little guy when you look at the price of food nowadays. I should say, what a pity that food cannot be downloaded.
So just don't count on me to shed a tear cause there's a huge non-monetary sharing community spreading on the net all over the world.
Now if you guys wish to take your wrath on the so called pirates out there, I suggest you direct it at those trying to make money by illegally selling copyrighted material on the net.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
So, taking something you have no right to is fine in your book?
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