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Originally Posted by rhetorical
Bottom line here is don't blame the victim of the theft. I am so sick and tired of people justifying obvious crime.
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And again, I have never once blamed the
theft on the content providers.
I blame the music industry for
creating the "us versus them" mentality.
Not the theft.
Are we quite clear on this now?
There is no excuse for stealing shit, whether it's robbing a liquor store or mass-distributing copyrighted material without the provider's permission.
You keep going back to "justifying theft" - I've never done that. I've just said, over, and over, and over again, that the music industry created the "us versus them" mentality with their excessive use of tort, lobbying for special legislative favors, and general resistance of new technology, and they've been doing it since long before Napster existed. Ever heard of the Sonny Bono Law? The record industry basically destroyed public domain with that piece of work, by extending copyright on all published music for 100 years after the artist's
death. Patents on new technology are only good for 25 years, but copyright on music is good for a minimum of a century? How ludicrous is that?
Bottom line: The "us versus them" mentality continues to fuel this constant drive for new pirating technology.
The smart content provider will find other ways to make money off their content. The stupid one will jump up and down and throw tantrums because the evil haxxorz are taking all their money away, and they'll end up folding like an accordion.