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In Reply to: move on over to the pc audio forum posted by hermanesque on March 19, 2007 at 17:11:46:
Unethical or immoral? Yes, maybe that *is* a matter of "feel" -- and one that each one of us is permitted to feel out for himself. And that, in turn, is going to depend entirely on whether you or I feel that record companies should be reimbursed for their business efforts, that artists should earn royalties on their creations, etc.Illegal? Sorry, but that is decidedly *not* a matter of "feel." That is a matter of law to be decided by our federal courts -- including our Supreme Court (starting with its Sony Betamax decision 25 years ago and continuing right up through its Grokster/StreamCast decision of a couple years' ago). Granted, these decisions arise in technically different contexts and factual circumstances; but, they're all members of the same family: and copyright infringement -- like theft -- is not, at bottom, a legal issue that requires a lot of mental heavy lifting.
My observation: it strikes me that this whole thread is built around the entirely artificial distinction between who winds up with the original of a work and who winds up with its copy. Would anyone care to argue that it would be non-infringing for me to buy a CD and to rip and sell copies of it -- all the while keeping the original? Of course not, right? So, what's the difference? Why would a surprising (to me) number of you jump to my defense were I to rip a copy of a CD to keep for myself and to sell the original? At the end of both scenarios, we wind up in exactly the same place: with one purchased work and more than one end user of it. What difference does the "who's who?" spin on it make?
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