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Originally Posted by ahi
Are you suggesting that artists would stop making music if sheet music printers did not adequately compensate them? I see downloading in the same category... ultimately of no meaningful impact on the majority of artists, whether or not the MAFIAA eventually decides to buy legislation to compensate them for it. (And, by the way, some countries already tax storage media, from video tapes to CDs, DVDs, and MP3 players [not sure about hard drives] in order to compensate media conglomerates for the possibility of lost sales.)
- Ahi
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File sharing is not the same as sheet music printers. The basic issue is that printing (prior to 20 years ago with the advent of laster printers) has always been relatively expensive. That meant that those who printed copyright work were relatively few and could be reasonably sued if they violated copyright.
File sharing on the other hand has the potential of creating a culture where people (and you appear to be already there) believe they don't need to compensate the creator of the work for the effort they put into it. File sharing is cheap and easy and thus anyone can do it. As the music industry has already learned, once the culture becomes entrenched, it becomes very hard to stop.
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Bill