Post #3321 by hanford_lemoore on Thu, Jul 4, 2002 8:03 PM

by the way, I wrote my previous post because I'm torn with MP3 trading. Although I own most of my music collection, I have collected MP3s that I don't own. And I don't feel good about it.

I work in the software industry and I don't condone software piracy; I don't think it's right. Copying and trading MP3s is very similar -- they're copyrighted, and were created to be sold.

And if I made an album of music I'd want people to buy it, not trade it for free. And if I wrote a book I would not want it being traded back and forth on the Internet.

But there are a lot of people who, not only do it (as I have done) but honestly, truly, deeply in the bottom of their heart believe that they're not doing anything wrong and that all music should rightfully and legally be free. I don't agree with that. That's why I posted my first post.

So, while I've done it, I've never kidded myself about legality of what I was doing.

Okay, I'll get off of the soapbox now.

~Hanford

And to MrsCarnaby: This isn't about you or your post, it just happened to be the trigger. I don't know the context in which you wrote "free" and I'm not assuming anything about your ethical standpoint on the subject. In short, this post of mine is not directed towards you. I'm just ranting :)