People talk about file sharing as “stealing” but isn’t that purely a warped interpretation of what copyrighting was supposed to be about?? I think we need to question this whole issue again; copyrights involve protecting the integrity of a person’s work, don’t they? If I take someone’s music and say I wrote and recorded it, then I would be truly stealing their work. I don’t think it fundamentally has anything to do with keeping a person from sharing something with someone else. Sure, people are getting rich from music but that’s really more of the way the law is construed, and just because it is law doesn’t mean it is ethical or moral.
Maybe I just don’t get it, though...
No, I follow your train of thought. How long before that train gets to the point that we can’t play songs for parties in our homes without permission? Think it can’t happen? Try scheduling a Superbowl party...
Whats the difference between this and recording songs off the radio with tape player back in the eightys?,This RIAA stuff is extortion pure and simple