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Originally posted by Rataxes:
Animal, if you honestly cannot see a difference between making a copy of intellectual property and stealing personal possessions then I'm not going to bother to try and make you see one. Suffice to say that if a group of thugs broke into my house and stole everything of value that I owned then that would've dealt a serious blow to my life and the lives of everyone who lived there. Can you give me even one example of how music sharing has evidently dealt a serious blow to someones life?
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So what you are saying is that a crime is only a crime if it has a serious effect on someone's life? Sorry, I don't see it that way.
The fact that the people associated with the music, software or movie are being deprived of profits should be enough of a reason by itself, regardless of the criminal aspect of such behaviour.
Just because some of these people may be wealthy, doesn't lessen the impact and even though the artists still see nothing wrong with it, making illegal copies of music, software or movies is illegal. By downloading such copies, the user is comitting a crime. It doesn't matter whether it's burglary or downloading illegal music, a crime is a crime.