I'm not interested in that part. I'm interested in listening to
music that muscians don't mind me downloading, and not giving the
RIAA one red cent.
On Wednesday, August 06, 2003 at 02:12PM -0400, John Pedersen wrote:
> Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> >http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html
> >
> >Haven't read it all yet, but seems veeery interesting.
>
> Dylan that's a great link! Thanks. I didn't finish reading it
> either--I bogged down in the section called:
>
> "Change the Law"
>
> In it, the author says, "If we work together, we can shake up the
> government so profoundly that sharing music - anyone's music - is no
> longer illegal.
>
> Many, many millions more people share music around the world - if your
> country is democratic, you can change your laws too. If your country
> is not democratic, I can certainly appreciate the difficulty you're
> in. But if you have courage, political change is still possible,
> although more costly, but worthwhile for reasons a lot more
> significant than making it legal to swap music..
>
> If you don't think this can happen, consider Slashdot user Quizo69's
> comment Illegal becomes legal if YOU change it..."
>
> Dylan, I dunno about you, but when I read "illegal becomes legal if
> you change it," the phrase "Tyranny of the Majority" comes to mind.
>
> As soon as we use our combined votes to declare that the property of
> some record company can be freely traded, then what's next? Perhaps
> we could vote that anybody with $100,000 in their bank account has
> more than they need, when so many are struggling, and we should
> confiscate it and share it.
>
> I hate to be on the side of record companies, yuck! Thanks for
> posting that link!
>
> John
>
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