iPod Pirated Music

[drewyboy]

All I can say is Apple should not play Big Brother. There is absolutely no reason that Apple should have to pick up the pieces of everyone elses problem, therefore, Apple shouldn't have to put in the extra effort or extra money to take care of everyone elses problem. End of discussion.

 

[jsw]

but in most cases piracy is not the loss of a potential sale. do you honestly think a 13 year old kid would have paid for all the albums he pirates if piracy wasn't an option

So, the fact that they couldn't legally afford the music they're stealing justifies the theft? When someone can steal all the music they could ever listen to, they don't tend to buy any. Which, of course, is irrelevant because it's still illegal.

If you don't like the money artists are getting, don't buy the CDs. But that doesn't mean that stealing them is anything other than theft. Period.

To the original point: Apple can't distinguish legal from illegal music, so there's not much they can do about it unless they only allow DRM'd files, which would be corporate suicide.

 

[spacepower7]

pirates

Pirates are cool, especially if they have a sailboat, eyepatch, and a parrot on their shoulder. They say "Gerrrrrrr Mate."

CD sale are actually down slightly, but so is the number of albums.

3-4% less CDs were sold in 2005 than 2004 while at the same time the Record Industry (oligarchy) released about 10% less albums.

 

[adk]

wouldn't you get angry if someone said,

"check out my new porsche!"
"sweet, where did you get that?"
"oh I stole from this guy down the street"

i'd be pretty pissed

To me, this is far from how p2p works. The guy who "shares" his music doesn't lose his copy when somebody else downloads it.

"Check out my new porsche!"
"sweet, where did you get that?"
"I used technology to make an exact copy of it, now we both have a porsche. Sure, porsche didn't make any money off of my car, but do you really think I was going to buy a porsche anyways?"

 

[jsw]

I guess you missed the points above.

Illegally sharing music is - duh - illegal. The fact that you're able steal music without hurting your buddy or some unknown P2P stranger is irrelevant. The fact that artists are rich or that the RIAA is composed primarily of greedy jackasses or that you can't afford the music or wouldn't have bought it anyway (which begs the question: why did you download it then?)... it is all irrelevant.

It's illegal, and we don't condone illegal activity here.