dagordon;150035 Wrote: > Brilliant analogy! The problem is that certain legal issues are a bit > more complicated than "if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a > duck." Some people even go to school to learn about these issues and to > be able to render informed judgements about particular cases. > > Do you also claim to have infallible intuitions about, say, the > intricacies of tax law?
As it happens, I am a qualified tax advisor :) dagordon;150035 Wrote: > This is a matter of interpreting U.S., Russian, and international > copyright laws and U.S. import/export laws and applying them to an area > that they were not designed to cover. Anyone claiming to be able to > discern a priori whether downloading from allofmp3 is legal or not must > be truly gifted. The exact legal issues are what keep the lawyers earning lots of money. The ethical issue is clear - AllOfMP3 pays no money to artists, so is just plain wrong. To use your tax analogy, it's like setting up a complex offshore scheme solely for the purpose of avoiding tax: it's just wrong. In the UK, our government has put in systems to make offshore tax avoidance much more difficult, and I approve wholeheartedly. Stretching the analogy, tax is good because it pays for many vital services. You may not like how much you pay, or how the government spends it, but it's a better thing to live in a tax-based society than in an anarchy. Paying for music (to the musicians!) is the same - you may not like the RIAA, BPI and their tactics, but you need to pay for it or the music will stop. -- adamslim SB3 and Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28858 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
