[gitmo]

A good analogy would be you get in your car to drive home. On the way home you get a cellphone call informing you five separate people had stolen your car earlier in the day. You continue driving home in your car and find out 3 more people had stolen your car in the interim.

While you were sleeping later that night, with your car safely in your garage, 18 different people stole your car. In the morning you get in your car and drive to work again.

[Richard Kimball]

There's not anything quite like what's happened with music. We can debate about what's right and wrong, but the simple fact is "what is." Music is easily reproducible, and there's no way to copy protect it. Copy protection of downloadable songs simply moves people towards pirating.

Copyrighting was originally intended to protect artists, but has become a method to enrich lawyers and corporations. As an example, Hank Williams has been dead for nearly sixty years, but lawyers still make money off his music. What if a hammer manufacturer demanded a royalty off every nail driven with a hammer? That's what copyright has become.

[NoRedTape]

"A good analogy would be you get in your car to drive home. On the way home you get a cellphone call informing you five separate people had stolen your car earlier in the day. You continue driving home in your car and find out 3 more people had stolen your car in the interim. While you were sleeping later that night, with your car safely in your garage, 18 different people stole your car. In the morning you get in your car and drive to work again."

But, did you build the "car" and have to pay others for producing and marketing the "Car"? The "car" in your scenario was not stolen, it was copied, or reproduced. There is still value in the reproduction; same cost and value as was put into the original.

Same with songs and software. They cost money to produce and to market. Why should they be allowed to be stolen? They are produced to be sold; not just given away, unless the manufacturer or artist decides to do so.

[Lower55]

“A good analogy would be you get in your car to drive home. On the way home you get a cellphone call informing you five separate people had stolen your car earlier in the day. You continue driving home in your car and find out 3 more people had stolen your car in the interim.

While you were sleeping later that night, with your car safely in your garage, 18 different people stole your car. In the morning you get in your car and drive to work again.”

Silly analogy.....A better one would be people taking pictures of your car.