Oh please.
“Becuase I use Napster that automatically makes me an across the board theif.”
Yeah, right.
On my way back from the grocery store, where, incidentally, I stuffed as much shit down my pants as I could, I knocked over a little old lady and took her purse. She had something I wanted.
Come on people!
I was about to quote my earlier post all up and down this thread. On second thought, forget it. My points have been made and I stick behind them (Well, most of them, see below). I’ll grant you they were not always clear, and most have some anger behind them, but I fail to see where you miss my main point. Or should I say, TWO, points.
“The judges ruling goes far beyond the Napster issue.” That was my first friggin post. And my main point.
Second point: I happen to use Napster and find no problem with that.
TWO issues here!
For now I’ll only focus on Napster, because that’s where you seem to take issue with me.
I never, never intended on buying the music I listen to from Napster in the first place. I do not resell it, I don’t claim it as my own. I do not profit from it in any way, shape, or form. I’m not running a music distribution service over here. If I did, you’d have every right to call me a theif. However, distinction here, it’s for my personal use.
In fact, others have listened and asked, ‘Who is that, anyway?’. ‘Well, its blah blah blah’. ‘Hmmm’. And actually have gone out a bought the album.
What others do does not justify my actions. I know that. But please explain to me how this is different than snapping on the radio and listening to a song. Or hearing a song on the radio and then downloading it. Their (the music industry) the ones who seem to be riding the fence. ‘Here this? listen to how good it is. Watch us promote the shit out of it on MTV and your favortite radio station. Oh what, your downloading it, I’m gonna sue your pants off buddy.’ It seems to me it’s free in both instances.
Am I a Saint? No. Am I public enemy number one? I doubt it. Could Napster be missused and abused? Most definitely. But not by me.
What about that song I downloaded from Napster the other day that I once owned. The CD I bought from the music store got scratched beyond repair and I saw it on Napster. Since I’ve paid my fair share to own the CD, I have every right to download load it, correct? According to your own statements, I do.
I’ve been trying to find a quote in the copyright law that you so helpfully included in your previous post. I felt one massive headache coming on trying to navigate that shit. Subsection 5 article B-4 amendment 2A category 1-F ‘…ownership of said copyright after death or dismemberment’. I’m an ex-bartender Goddamit! I’m not a lawyer.
I took what someone else mentioned, recalled the audio cassette surcharge the music industy added to it, and assumed the poster was right.
For that, I take back my jab at you on your new MP3 player. But, I’ll never know if I’m right or not becuase I’m not about to tackle that site.
There is obviously alot of opinions around here on the Napster issue. There also seems to be quite a bit of grey areas in this issue as well. Hell, the artists themselves can’t seem to agree on it.
I put in my two cents. Got bitched at for calling someone a dimwit and was told to move it to the pit. I did.
You and I will never see eye to eye on this. But that doesn’t mean you can make sweeping accusations about me because of that difference.
I may be wrong, I may be right, I don’t know. And I don’t think you know either.
Finally: I think, and posted accordingly, that the record industry should wake the fuck up and try to profit from this form of exchange rather than suing everyone in site that they seem to think is not paying their fair share.
A number of points. A few distinctions in my argument that others have overlooked. I called you a jerk only after you called me a theif. When all is said and done, you and I are probably closer to an agreement then we really think. I just went about it differently. You went about it with your head in your ass.
) so I don’t have a book on me but every book I’ve ever seen has a small section which tells you that it is prohibited under copyright law to loan the book. Theft maybe not but it is against the law.
