Too bad Obama is only inclined to look forward as opposed to looking backward.
Obama administration: "Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft"
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#102I hate it when people equate piracy with theft...it's copyright infringement, not theft. If someone breaks into my car and steals my iPod, that's theft. I, the original owner, no longer possess the item. If instead the "thief" breaks into my car and copies all of the music from my iPod (let's say that all of the songs are recordings of my band to make things simple) and posts it on several torrent trackers, that's pi…
I would like to see something like a Netflix or Hulu for music. Something where you have unlimited access to all the music you want to listen to, but musicians are fairly compensated for their work. The Internet has made the information cost of music distribution vanishingly small, but there's no way for producers or consumers to take advantage of this. Actually, now that I think about it, there were once services li…
If you're not in a country where Spotify is available check out Grooveshark instead.
Re: Obama administration: "Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft"
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
| Since all of these songs are always instantly available | to me, these artists are still within reach, even the | one-hit-wonders from yesteryear. If I hadn't downloaded | Fastball's "Outta My Head" back in 1998, I would never | have gone to see them perform at the Viper Room in 2008 | (it was the illegal download of a B-side that made me | appreciate them more than hearing "The Way" on the | radio). While that may…
In this case, the record label and by extension the employees of the record label lost out on their share of the $1 you should arguably have spent on the track. (assuming an itunes download at approximately market price). The year was 1998, and there was no iTunes. My only other alternative was to buy the full CD at $12-17. As a poor college student, I could only afford to buy maybe 3 CD's a year, and Fastball's albu…
Then so be it.
You're using a post-hoc justification of the end result to claim that the piracy was acceptable.
It wasn't.
Re: Obama administration: "Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft"
#104I hate it when people equate piracy with theft...it's copyright infringement, not theft. If someone breaks into my car and steals my iPod, that's theft. I, the original owner, no longer possess the item. If instead the "thief" breaks into my car and copies all of the music from my iPod (let's say that all of the songs are recordings of my band to make things simple) and posts it on several torrent trackers, that's pi…
Devils advocate: there are obviously a lot of people that write programming code here. That is something created within each person's mind, and brought into existence -- just like a song. How would any of us view having our computers hacked into at the leisure of would-be users of our programs who sought to copy our code and then use it? Would we view this as theft?
I would view that as the digital equivalent of trespassing.
As far as how I'd view it if people "pirated" software that I'd worked on? Well... I'd view it about the same as I did when I last found a copy of said software being shared: it's copyright infringement, not theft.