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To: A. Pole
A false assumption.

No, a quite true one.

That someone downloaded a copy of your song, it does not mean that he would buy it. Even it does not mean that he will keep it or listen to it.

So if hypothetically I walk into Sears and shoplift a blade for a lawnmower even though I live in the city and don't have a yard, that's not theft? Because, by your logic, since I don't have a yard, my stealing of the mower blade can't possibly be theft and I'm somehow *entitled* to the mower blade without paying for it.

Read the dictionary definition for the word "theft" some time, then get back to me.

Unauthorized downloading is stealing, plain and simple.

90 posted on 07/06/2003 6:11:15 PM PDT by strela ("Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures." Horatio Hornblower)
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To: strela
So if hypothetically I walk into Sears and shoplift a blade for a lawnmower...

A blade has a value certain. That was dumb.

97 posted on 07/06/2003 6:17:09 PM PDT by Principled
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To: strela
So if hypothetically I walk into Sears and shoplift a blade for a lawnmower even though I live in the city and don't have a yard, that's not theft?

A false analogy. The proper analogy would be if you make a photo of the blade and make a replica in your basement.

99 posted on 07/06/2003 6:19:20 PM PDT by A. Pole
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