"Word Nazis", we all should be.
your opinion is a minority and doesn’t sqaure with current law or the founder’s ideal.
The founders paid no attention to anything like this, and judging by the number of downloaders my view might very well be with the majority.
Either way, the industry is doomed. No laws will change that.
US Constitution Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8: To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Copyright and Patent protection in a nutshell, included by the founders in the constitution.
Bootlegging is illegal and anti-thetical to the prosperity of a free nation of self-governed men. People who think it is all right to rip the work of others instead of purchasing or in order to resell and steal the profits for themselves are thieves as well as brigands who hijack not only music and movies, but our culture and our nation with their overweening sense of entitlement.
You are historically and morally bereft.