Most people have friends who they share CD’s with offline so my question is, if Kazaa is so bad then why is it ok to have your friends burn copies of CD’s for you?
A lot of the same people who think Kazaa is stealing because you are not paying for the music won’t think twice about having someone burn CD’s that they want.
By the way, I am so scared I will get sued my Kazaa usage is mostly for finding free hip hop instrumentals that the people want you to take for free anyway.
In my opinion there is no difference between the two. In both examples someone is getting music that they did not purchase, it has just been accomplished in a different matter. We hear less of lawsuits against CD-copiers because it is hard to track, whereas online music swapping is relatively easy to track. The recording industry is basically just going after a few people as a scare tactic, when in my opinion, they should be revising their business model.
That’s a scare tactic that cost me $3000. Lesson: Kazaa is bad for you and yes they really can catch you. So I have not downloaded any music since (although it’s the sharing they really have an issue with, not strictly the downloading, and I was oblivious to the automatic sharing thing), but I have also not bought a single CD since, when there are several I might have bought if I didn’t have a newly-minted hatred of major record companies. Luckily I have a sister who just acquired an iPod, so I assimilated everything halfway decent from her CD collection into my own.
The difference would be the sheer number of people you can share with by using a program like Kazaa versus burning a copy for a friend or two.
Also, when using Kazaa you are saying “Hey world, here’s free stuff” in a public place (the internet).
I should have said “relatively few people”. As in a very small percentage of the people actually sharing music.
Kazaa showed up on my desktop without my doing anything. I don’t like things showing up on my desktop without my doing anything so I removed it.
I remember you mentioning your troubles (fleetingly—the thread, I think, was deleted) a while ago. I always wondered how that panned out. I am so very sorry you had to go through that.
To answer the OP, the difference is that Kazaa shares with everyone, while sharing your CD playlist just shares with a few. Both aren’t right, but the latter doesn’t do near the damage and I think most copyright holders have looked the other way in the past.
I have never used an online music sharing service because they can and will find you. That is flat out theft and redistribution of copyrighted material. But there is the other concept of burning a CD for your friend, which is no different from making them a tape. That’s not strictly illegal. I’m giving my father in law copies of two CDs that I purchased, for Christmas. If they were still in print, I could have got him silvers, but seeing as how they are for all intents and purposes unavailable, copies are OK.
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IMO, essentially there’s no real difference. Either way, the receiver of the goods is getting material he or she didn’t pay for. Real world differences may exist, such as yosemite’s example, but in the end, it does boil down to the same thing.
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File sharing, in both scenarios, results in copyright violation. This board does not permit discussion of methods of copyright violation.
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