Re: SCROOGE the RIAA GRINCH!! BOYCOTT MUSIC CHRISTMAS OF 2003!!!

"Ookie Wonderslug" <ookie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:03:33 +0100, "Graybags" <gbas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >
> >"Ronald Cole" <ronald@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >> Matt Griffin <deedlydee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >> > a 12 year old shoplifter is still a shoplifter.
> >>
> >> How do you explain the difference to a child between recording and
> >> listening to music on a radio and recording and listening to music on
> >> a computer?
> >
> >Stealing is stealing. However, the odd song recorded from the radio
is...
> >1. Not copying thousands of files and sharing them (possibly for
commercial
> >gain)
> >2. Untraceable.
> >
> >Taking a pound from your mum's bedside table is wrong, but robbing a
bank
> >waving a gun around is the one that's likely to land you in deep do-do.
> >
> >See the difference, now? It's called scale.
> >
>
> But it is not stealing. Stealing is when you deprive someone of their
> property without their permission.

The music is the property of the artist. You don't have permission to have
it without paying for it. That's stealing.

Graybags