Originally posted by Gus
Jettredmont, that was indeed a nice post. Thank you!
I would just like to add that some of you have this "Robin Hood" complex about your habits; you steal things (music, information, software, etc.) and because you are stealing it (obstensibly) from a "Big Corporation", you justify it as being right, or worse, legal. Remember, copyright laws are intended to protect those who have the direct link to the creative process. The musician/artist/composer/author, etc. it counting on the money made from their creative output to live.
Granted, the "Big 5" labels are making a killing off of these artists, but to fight this, the artists themselvess need to take a stance of some sort, but they seem relatively happy. Just because you don't like a law or a rule doesn't mean you can break it, and then justify it as "being the right thing". I refer to Jettredmont's comments about filetting your neighhbors. Just because you don't like your neighbors because their dog craps in your yard, you can't barbeque Fido for it without a legal consequence.
Ok, I'm rambling now.
Just think of this: before copyright laws existed, Mozart made his living as a self-employed composer, the first self-employed composer at that. Because so many people were obtaining copies of his music, rewriting them in their opwn hand, and then publishing them as their own, the man made no money. He died in a pauper's grave (mass grave) in Vienna. Instead of people buying his music, they bought illegally copied versions, and Mozart made ni money.
I'm done.
Regards,
Gus
some people just don't live in reality. do you honestly think people think twice about burning a cd of something to a friend. the law is broken and no one cares so why do you?
