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Originally Posted by bhartman36
The nature of publishing itself is monopolistic, in a certain sense: A publishing house signs a deal with an author, and then the author's books are produced and distributed through only that house.
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This is actually not true - many authors have deals with quite a number of publishers, sometimes even multiple ones for the same book (e.g. hardcover, softcover, ebook, audiobook, etc).
And this is still not the same as a monopole - a monopole would mean that a single publisher holds the complete market (which is ATM not the case).
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If you want a new Viper, you have to either get it through Dodge. There's nothing monopolistic about that, in a legal sense.
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Nope. But if Dodge was the only (major?) car producer on the market, this would be different.
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The behavior of the RIAA, while I might find it heavy-handed, does not in any way justify intellectual property theft.
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Well, file sharing does not fit the normal definition of theft. I do not argue "piracy should be legal or fine" I am arguing "its the fault of the industry and their ridiculous fight is doing them no good".
Whenever I watch an original DVD in Germany, I have to go through several minutes of videos telling me that "copying a video is illegal" and announcing harsh (and in most cases totally false) results (e.g. imprisonment for multiple years). This annoys me - I pay for a DVD and then I get insulted and threatened? Nope, sorry. Wont buy DVDs any more (not downloading them either).
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What hurts the RIAA also hurts the artists they have signed. That's unfortunate, but it's true.
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Not neccassarily.
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If you use TPB to download a movie, that's quite a bit different from someone hosting the links to thousands of such movies, and making money off of it, besides.
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I agree.