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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Because this is a thread about illegal file sharing. While I am all for shorter limits on copyrights, as well as fair use copying, I believe that distributing or downloading illegal is the much greater evil and has to be addressed first.
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If copyright were shorter sharing a large number of those files would no longer be illegal. Also when one considers overly long copyrights to be unjust they have less reason to respect any copyright.
No doubt a great many file sharers just don't wish to pay for content. A great many more don't want to pay the asking price but might go lower, I use itunes myself for music but I'd probably impulse buy more often if the prices there were lower. A few may be fighting an unjust system. A few might be using p2p tools as a way to strip drm from things that they don't know how to do themselves. A few try before they buy. A few... A few... A few...
But you condemn them all, I won't and this is where things got nasty before and will probably set off a second round of attacks on me and counter attacks from me. Copyright is broken, I'd feel like a hypocrite if I sat back and said things against people who don't want to play nice when they've been treated badly. If they want to break an unjust law good for them, I've broken unjust laws myself.