| Re: Downloaders 'unfazed by lawsuits' |
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| Pastor Marc (/lihbuvyrfh8tyihunijmo) |
2004/05/25 14:20 |
I used to download from Kazaa and Napster, but I became convinced after a
while that it was wrong for me to do it because the artists worked hard to
make those works of art and they deserve to be paid for their work.
Especially if I have been blessed by it. For a long time, I tried to justify
my thievery byu telling myself that I had owned all of the downloaded tuens
legitimately at one time or another and I was just reclaiming what I had
alreayd paid for in another format.
But I had no peace of mind about it. I attribute that to the Spirit of God
dealing with my inner person. Even so, it wasnt an easy decision for me to
destroy those burned cds because I must have had 300 cds worth of burned
music. But I decided that it was better to do what God wanted me to do than
to hold on to something that really wasnt mine.
So to make a long story short, I trashed the 300 cds and now I download from
walmart.com or just rip my own cds to my Nomad.
I have a sizeable cd collection of my own and saw it as wrong for me to take
without paying when I could afford to pay for it.
Having said all of this, I am not telling anyone else what to do. This is my
personal journey of my own thoughts on file sharing. I know that there are
good people on both sides of the issue. But this is my story and I'm
sticking to it
Marc
"FunkyDevil" <qs8rzr001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:31fff59e.0405251202.519808c7@posting.google.com...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3743065.stm
>
> " The threat of legal action has done little to deter European
> internet users from downloading pirated music and films, according to
> a research company. "
>
> There are also a few articles with the same theme but from last year
> about the USA , this one is about internet traffic in Europe.
>
> It's the newest one I have seen.
>
> But the common theme in all these types of articles is that they feel
> that eventually internet ( pay ) downloading will win out , they feel
> that most of you are stupid , and if they continue to treat you as if
> you're stupid they will eventually get all your money.
> You know they want to raise the price on that one dollar download ,
> they're just waiting for the right moment.
>
> And unfortunately a lot of you are in fact going to , or are already
> supporting , the new Napster and also Itunes and the others that are
> similar.
>
> So maybe the "RIAA and similar trade terrorists" are right.
>
> I don't think they are though.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3743065.stm
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