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Originally Posted by ardeegee
No, the person is playing in the hopes of getting paid by the listeners. If you listen and don't pay, then, by your definition, you are a thief. Having a digital copy of a song, or book, or movie that you didn't pay for is the same thing. In both cases, the "content creator" is out only a "potential sale," which is a lawery way of saying "nothing." It is exactly the same topic.
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No, no, no. Hope is a different thing. And you are completely misconstruing or deliberately misstating my position. I said exactly what I believe wrt the musician, and now you are say I said something else. That's rich!
A digital copy is a thing, it is not music in the air or light from a movie or computer screen. If you have a copy of my IP without my permission, you are a thief. That's what I'm saying. You have deprived me of a sale, not a potential sale, an actual sale because you possess my property without my permission.
The thing that screws up everybody's reasoning in this is the physical instantiation of IP which is pretty much the way it's always been. It still is in fact, but the ability to make or distribute the "new" physical instantiation (read data file) is incredibly easy compared to what it was in the past. But in reality there really is no difference.