[Leroy S. Mort]

I notice you failed to address the rest of my comment: "Both issues involve the protection of income by the party holding the copyright, and an effort by others to deny or bypass that income through a violation of the copyright."

Are you disagreeing with that, or merely ignoring it?

[tdadams]

This is really getting tiring. I suspect your questions are rhetorical and disingenuous, so I'm reluctant to keep entertaining you. However, I'll take the chance that maybe you really don't get it.

The issue is downloading music vs. posting articles on FR. What makes one sinister and the other less so? In a word, motivation.

What is the motive of someone who downloads music from the internet? To circumvent buying that same song at retail and having to pay for it. The offender is essentially receiving stolen property and receives a monetary benefit from his action.

What is the motive of someone who posts an article to FR? To share contemporary news of a common interest with others of a like mind. No monetary benefit.

There is a difference. But instead of seeing and acknowledging that, you're only trying to make your point and completely ignoring the differences that I've pointed out.

Frankly, I'm tired of running in circles with you on this issue, so your future posts to me will be ignored. I've answered you already.