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Originally Posted by Pandawdy
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You didn't get the membership memo? I'm the most evil, angry, and heartless one here!
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I don't believe that Goober is trying to rationalize stealing. The music industry has failed miserably at keeping up with technology.
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You're right. I was a bit harsh.
However, I still don't accept the right of the consumer to decide that it doesn't like how a bit of property is being marketed/sold and then to steal it (yeah, we can pick nits about what is "stealing," but taking posession of intellectual property without paying for it, IMHO, is stealing).
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I won't pay 99 cents for a song when the song doesn't even exist on any sort of physical media, and I certianly won't pay 15 dollars for a CD. So what's the answer? I don't know. But it's clearly a failure of the music industry to capitolize on new technology.
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Does a song on your hard drive exist in any less of a real sense than a song on a CD?
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People have been making mp3's for over 10 years now. But the music industry still tries to push CD's on people that don't want to buy them.
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Absolutely. I suspect, as the 'net evolves, that musicians will find a way to distribute their music and get paid for it without the interference of the music industry. It's not that far away.