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Originally Posted by Jabba
I agree with you with regard to the theft aspect - music should be treated the same as any other goods in that regard. We're talking about people's livelihoods and innovation here.
Yeah, I know that we all used to tape our mate's vinyl/CDs but at least in that case someone had paid for a least one copy. Wrong/theft, but we all did it.
Not sure about losing 'net access though - the normal route for theft of anything else in court & fine. Why shouldn't this be the same?
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Precisely because copying isn't stealing. You're not taking anyone's property, or depriving them of the use of it, or even stopping them selling it. You'd be hard pushed to argue that if I copied something I actually would have bought it if I couldn't copy it and therefore had deprive someone of the revenue (Which is how the RIAA comes up with it billions of dollars lost to copyright "theft")