Post #19377 by hanford_lemoore on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 8:23 PM

On 2003-01-13 19:03, Chongolio wrote:
(who) here can honestly say they have never burned a music CD from a disk they did not buy, taped a record and then gave it to a friend, made a copy from a book or magazine at Kinkos and used it in a presentation, recorded a movie from TV onto VHS and then let the babysitter watch it, drew a picture of Mickey Mouse and had it printed in your school annual.

I know copying is going to happen. It always will. There is always risk involved in letting your idea outside of your head. I think a major aspect that bugs me about the new wave of music swapping is the perception that nothing's wrong with it. People actually picketted (with a picket line and signs and everything) Metallica when they sued Napster.

I remember in the (good?) old days, people bootlegged computer software, but no one I knew ever rationalized it by saying "all software should be free!!!" ... they all knew what they were doing was wrong.

Today, people (kids mostly) act like there's nothing wrong with copying music. The respect of the copyright holders is missing.

Then we get arguments on Tiki Central where Person A is mad at person B becuase Person A will only bootleg for trade, while Person B wants cold-hard cash for his bootlegs. And Person A feels so much more justified in their bootlegging. It's silly!

. Let face it we are breaking laws that are obviously not up to date with the modern world.

Kind of. The only thing that has changed is that it is easier now than it used to be. Much easier. Just becuase it is easy, does it mean it should be legal? Just becuase it is hard to stop, does it mean we change the definition of intellectual property? I hope not.

~Hanford

PS, Chongholio, you're correct in your assessment of my stickers being HACK. I don't even own a printer, that image of the sticker I posted is just a photoshop mockup.