"Nowadays every square inch could contain someones lifework ten times, like on a USB-stick."
If you can fit someone's life work on a USB-stick and multiply it ten times, then obviously they haven't done very much work.
"How can you justify downloading somebody else's intellectual property without compensating them in teh way they choose"
How can you justify having to pay $740 for a pirated music file if its original worth was $0.99?
How can you justify the artists already making millions, but continuing to make us pay for their music?
How can you justify that the RIAA making people poor because of a song they took illegally? Just because someone does something illegally doesn't mean they should be penalized to the point that they can't live anymore. A song may have been someone's hard work, but the recording companies are going to have to do A LOT better if they don't want people taking their music. If they don't want to spend money doing research to find a way to make music usable only once, then obviously they don't care about the fact that a percentage of the money they don't make is because of pirating.
Oh, and I'm not talking about that stupid DRM crap. DRM sucks, because there are more than just one music format... Someone could easily convert a Windows Media file to an MP3 or other format that didn't have DRM.
If they can't handle that factor, then they shouldn't be a record company.
I think copyrights were made so someone couldn't make profit off of a product someone made, not so people could listen to music.
Oh! I know! We can take off "cut", "copy", and "paste" from our computers! Then we can remove internet access so people can't get on the internet to download music illegally!
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"Nowadays every square inch could contain someones lifework ten times, like on a USB-stick."
If you can fit someone's life work on a USB-stick and multiply it ten times, then obviously they haven't done very much work.
"How can you justify downloading somebody else's intellectual property without compensating them in teh way they choose"
How can you justify having to pay $740 for a pirated music file if its original worth was $0.99?
How can you justify the artists already making millions, but continuing to make us pay for their music?
How can you justify that the RIAA making people poor because of a song they took illegally? Just because someone does something illegally doesn't mean they should be penalized to the point that they can't live anymore. A song may have been someone's hard work, but the recording companies are going to have to do A LOT better if they don't want people taking their music. If they don't want to spend money doing research to find a way to make music usable only once, then obviously they don't care about the fact that a percentage of the money they don't make is because of pirating.
Oh, and I'm not talking about that stupid DRM crap. DRM sucks, because there are more than just one music format... Someone could easily convert a Windows Media file to an MP3 or other format that didn't have DRM.
If they can't handle that factor, then they shouldn't be a record company.
I think copyrights were made so someone couldn't make profit off of a product someone made, not so people could listen to music.
Oh! I know! We can take off "cut", "copy", and "paste" from our computers! Then we can remove internet access so people can't get on the internet to download music illegally!