Pirating music is more like taking a photograph of the painting.

And argue morality over business. Is it better to download a copy (making the artists “lose” $1.50), really like it, and have your friends go to a concert with you and figure out they really like it as well (making the artists “gain” $75)? Or is it better to remain prudent (making the artists “gain” $1.50 for a song they never sold), and not have everything above done? (making the artists “lose” $75 they would have accredited to someone else anyway…)

If freedom of…well, music is outlawed, only outlaws will have music. Of course, it hasn’t been outlawed, but the only reason we’re “criminals” as you suggest is because the US’s laws say so. No law is perfect. If prices were lower, the RIAA would have less of a problem.

(Thousands of artists? It’s more like thousands of songs from a handful of artists.)

(Anyway, what did you expect, someone wholeheartedly agreeing with you? I’m thinking someone’s quote would be, “You really hit the nail on the head there.”)

In Canada, we have tariffs (resource taxes, more like) on blank recording media (21¢ per CD, I believe) that we give to the “copyright holders” to compensate for any losses that might have resulted from “illegal copying”, which in turn makes it “legal” here. You wouldn’t steal a CD, no? I know I wouldn’t…only its contents.

Big companies can bully around an individual who is doing what many other people do.

The Department of eduction is part of our government and our government is controlled by the cooperation’s that have what is called corporate person-hood, which means they have the same rights as you and I, but with unlimited resources to flex them and they never die… so they want everyone just dumb enough not to figure it out, but smart enough to do some bone head job to make money to by shit.

The utilities companies want you to by power and gas, not find a way to make it cheaper (unless it cheapens their cost to make it, but not the prise you pay, the food companies want you to have to buy their food not locally grow yours. the textile industry wants you to buy their textiles but pay less to make it and make more profit, not create jobs for you, the hospitals are privately owned and what you sick but not dead to profit.

You think I am exaggerating…. LOOK AT THE RESULTS AROUND YOU!!!!

LIVE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY FOR 1 YEAR and you will see far more uncensored and less controlled MEDIA. AND YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE EAST TIMOR (20 years later does not count), OR TRUTH ABOUT OR GOVERNMENTS ACTIONS!!!

MY FRIEND WAS FORCED TO FIGHT and DIE IN A FOREIGN WAR AGAINST HIS WILL AND THE PLEDGE HE TOOK TO JOIN THE MILITARY (Because they Lie).

Those people just want to raise their goats and provide a better future for their kids, they do not give a rats ass about our “freedom”. It is a battle between powerful governments that are made of a small percent of powerful poeple that want to maintain power, and they do it by convincing their poeple and our people that we should hate each other and then start a war with our support and guess what they get rich and maintain power and we get poor and our kids die. IDIOT WAKE UP.
WAKE THE FUCK UP!!

Look at the members list of the “Console of foreign relations” and then ask yourself, why are all these poeple getting together behind closed doors? People like the owner of chase Manhattan, ALL the BANKS, the presidents (including Obama, Clinton, Bush, Most of the key members of Congress and Senate and all Editors and owners of BIG Media) It is CRAZY!!!! They get together and decide what we hear which controls our beliefs and intern our behaviors….WAKE THE FUCK UP!

Why are our government officials meeting in private with corporate interests? To conspire to maintain power.

Fuck, but do not download a song…. WTF?!

Put shit in perspective! We are going top hell in a hand basket and our kids are coming out of school drolling and waring helmets, (1 in 152 autism now..hmmm drug companies and food additives? Anyone?)

Seriously, why don’t you all just believe that everything I just said is somehow mistaken and that I am crazy, it will make it so much easier for you all to do nothing and continue the original unimportant conversation.

Everything is easily verifiable as long as you do not use any main stream media out let as your souse as, by nature, they will either not cover it or lie and twist things in a way that your already controlled beliefs systems can easily turn into nonsense.

Or just discount it because you do not like being call stupid… A stupid person would rather be mad at the person pointing out that they are stupid, than to do something about their own stupidity.

Now, music, movies and songs are not media… A CD is a Medium, as is paper, airwaves, and electrons. If you do not want poeple to read you diary, do not leave it in the public street. If you do not want poeple to “Steal” your song, do not put it in the air! It is like speaking to my and telling me not to hear you… or listen. And, again… the artist are not losing, EVER, when their music is in demand…. real they have no need for the record companies now, and it is scaring the record companies. The record companies can not make the artist need them useless they make us need the record companies. Get it! If you are an artist and you are claiming that people are stealing you music and not paying you, then you either do not have music that has a demand and are bitching because five people stole you shit, or you have no clue how to profit from a million poeple wanting to hear you music. The art is art for art sake, the ability to use that to drive ad-rev and product lines is a different thing… Also, you do not see me downloading a wu tang T-shirt!