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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:23:33 From: Czarina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: Czarina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Politech] Yet Another Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus forms [ip]
Declan,
We will need as many anti-piracy caucuses, group, etc, until people stop stealing from artists. Sure, music and software should be free, but so should food, water, and electricity. However, if I walked out of Safeway with foodstuffs and didn't pay for them, I would go to jail, and no one would hesitate to call it stealing.
Piracy hurts everyone in the industry. It isn't right to steal music just because YOU feel that Madonna, Eminem, and Michael Jackson, et al "have made enough money". Do they make a ridiculous amount of money for what they do? Of course, but that doesn't make it right to steal. How would these pirates feel if someone with less money/success than they did, decided to steal their work and property because "they made enough money".
Yes, I am sure that music company CEO's and the artists won't feel it, but remember the piracy hurts the little guy, people in the same socio-economic groups as the ones stealing it. If you can afford a computer, you can afford a CD. Quit being so damned selfish and cheap !!
Czarina
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