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Gimme sited numbers. How "poor" is tax compliance?

What should the model be changed to? What business model would stop this massive theft? People keep saying that but nobody has put a model on the table. Put up or shutup, what's the model that will work?

If you don't think file swappers want free product then you obviously haven't listened to a word the file swappers say. They want free stuff. They want music without paying. Did I say they buy a computer to steal one album? No of course not, that would be stupid and your repeated use of blatant exhagerations and idiot statements like that shows how poor your position is. These guys steals thousands of songs, and software, and movies, and they even use the computer for legitimate reasons like surfing the web.

It's not a mantra, it's the truth. I repeat it because not one single person on your side of the argument has ever managed to construct a remotely effective counter argument.

Yes you are defending mass-swappers.

Got any proof that illegal distribution of songs has dropped one bit now that iTunes has started?

I'm not off base. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

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People keep saying that but nobody has put a model on the table
Actually many people have ideas, the RIAA doesn't want to talk to them.

And, I'll add that this discussion isn't solely about copyright law. The discussion is about the whole ball of wax; filesharing, the RIAA, changing technology, copyright law, etc.