(urth) Fw: Re: (no subject)

[Adam Thornton]

On May 20, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Stuart Hamm wrote:
>
> No one's gonna back me?? Don't we all rush out and buy a first  
> edition of GW's new books instead of downloading an illegal copy???

Yeah.

My own position is that downloading media illegally is some-kind-of- 
bad (me, I still prefer to buy physical CDs and then rip them to  
iTunes, so that I have unprotected files which I can then copy to  
whatever music player I may have in the future that might not be an  
iPod), but it's not exactly *theft*.  Copyright infringement is not,  
in my mind, the same crime as, say, stealing your TV.

I do not, however, think there's a one-to-one correspondence between  
lost sales and illegal downloads.  That is, plenty of people download  
things that they're idly curious about, but nowhere near enough  
interested in to buy.  Now, one can, quite correctly, make the point  
that they SHOULDN'T OUGHTA BE USING IT then.  Fair enough.

But mainly I was just bringing it up as a counterpoint to Brunians'  
absolutist Property Rights statement, by pointing out that there are  
some things which some people consider legitimate property rights, and  
others do not.

Adam
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