"you are not depriving them of anything other than money they might have made in a past era when you couldn't copy the song at your own expense."
Past era?? Gimme a break! According to your logic, because something can be electronically copied, it can't be a protected copyright.
They sell physical CDs and someone had to illegally copy that CD and pass it around as electronic bits and bytes.
I hope you never write a book, because I have a copy machine and will distribute it to my friends. I'll scan it into the internet, and because I can, you lose. No one will buy your stupid book because I'll give it to them for free. Besides, you're just a greedy author and deserve to get screwed, right?
I hope you never write a book, because I have a copy machine and will distribute it to my friends.Actually I am playing around with that.
I'll scan it into the internet, and because I can, you lose.
Too late, I've already got parts of it written and once I check them for grammer they'll be going into my blog.
No one will buy your stupid book because I'll give it to them for free.
So the content is bad because it's free? I guess everything at the gutenburg project must suck too then.
Besides, you're just a greedy author and deserve to get screwed, right?
Wah bloody wah. The only ones that deserve to get screwed are the uppity ones who fancy IP to equal to property rights.