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Originally posted by Animal:
So what you are saying is that a crime is only a crime if it has a serious effect on someone's life?
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What? No.
What you did was equate a bunch of burglars raiding ones house for all it's worth with making a copy of a piece of intellectual property that at most has a market value of a few dollars and is equivalent to a few cents of income for the artist responsible for the song. Now you've stepped down to just saying they're both crimes. They both undeniably are, since there's a very clear definition of what a crime is. I was just stating that while they're both crimes as defined by the law, they are not comparable in ANY other way.
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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,
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How you can you be so sure that illegal piracy is in fact hurting the incomes of recording artists? Other than a slight decrease in total revenue of music products (we're talking single digit percentages here) that isn't even consistent for the entire world (revenues increased in certain countries past year) over the past few years that could've been caused by numerous other factors (less interest in music, more competition from other branches of media products, recession, natural fluctuation of sales etc) I can't say I see any signs that online music sharing is about to cripple the music industry, and certainly no evidence that it has stopped the career of some indie band dead in it's tracks. I have on the other hand dozens of times witnessed first hand how online music sharing helped spread the word of new and upcoming artists and generated interest in those artists, something that can only be beneficial for them.
As for your last point, I'm not here to argue whether it's a crime or not. What I'm interested in is how music sharing actually affects the music industry and the recording artists.
[ 12-22-2004, 08:54 PM: Message edited by: Rataxes ]