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Originally posted by Jibbler@22 April 2003 - 22:25
Instead they are trying to punish the very same people who helped their business go from rags to riches. They used to call this "burning your bridges." Yes, this is a "common sense" approach, because despite all the legalities and logistics, this is how the majority of civilians approach life.
It is called desperation prior to the moment of extinction,
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It doesn't matter if companies get more than their fair share for the sales of commercial CDs and DVDs, and it doesn't matter whether you are outraged that the artists don't get the slice of income they deserve. You may be right beyond all argument. Nevertheless, civil disobedience against a company's greed is not effective when it is expressed through your own greed. The people of the Boston tea party dumped the tea so that nobody could use it. That made a much more powerful statement than if they had stolen the tea. Similarly, if you express your civil disobedience by stealing music, you are simply making it more likely that the system we'll end up with is worse than the one you're complaining about now.
We are all but THIEVES!!