File sharing fiction and facts.
More info provided on the "We're Not Taking Any More" club of victims of the RIAA's random prosecution techniques. How can they continue to get away with this extortion?
...p2p usage helps in the promotion of music by allowing users to experience it before purchase; and, it helps in the discovery of new music by users...Also provided, a nice Fiction/Fact section about file sharing.
2 comments:
Well done for cutting through the B.S. on this issue. You know I'm in the choir on this isue but I still found good new arguments in that article: sharing doesn't equal stealing, for example.
Don't stop filtering the good bits of the internet for us, Shocho!
Like almost all grey area legalities, it's easy to find a lot of people who "only share what they own" and "just use sharing to sample music before they buy it," and hard to find those people whose music budget has become zero because of such things, because people want to feel righteous in the defense of their own actions.
But, really, there is a difference between the people who just share it, and the people who just take it. The RIAA and MPAA want you to believe there's more of the latter than the former, and I tend to believe them, knowing human nature.
Whether or not this is hurting those companies, I doubt, because they make enough money anyway. But stealing a hundred bucks from someone who has billions doesn't make stealing the hundred bucks any more right, and it's not like you're taking a loaf of bread to feed your family here.
Anyway, with the advent of so many "song for a buck" avenues of getting music, I don't really see why anyone file shares anymore. I can either waste half an hour of my life trying to find a non-corrupted, correctly named version of the song I'm looking for, or I can just hop on iTunes, blow the dollar, and get the song I want.
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