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Originally Posted by olblueeyes
I have a black and white view of this issue. If I wish to own a piece of music, I pay for that privilege. I do not agree with the argument that because I have not taken the original that it is not stealing. It is stealing. The fact is, I live in a country where piracy is considered theft (and rightly so).
Someone put their blood, sweat and tears into producing that piece of art form. Anyone who decides they should be entitled to have a copy of that without paying for it is wrong. I have to pay to have a print of a painting - why should music be any different just because it is in digital form? People can justify it to themselves however they want but it amounts to the same. The internet has bred a generation of people who feel they have a god given right to take things just because there is a means of obtaining it - they don't.
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I agree with this absolutely. I learned to save for what I wanted, to prioritise, and to wait. I expected to be paid for my work, for use of materials I had designed. I expect to pay for the fruits of others' labour, or creation. Piracy is defined as theft here, and in my view too, it is. Only the designer/producer of the material can decide to give it away. Without that decision being made, you are taking something to which you are not entitled if you do not pay for it. That there may be a means to aid you doing that does not give you the entitlement.
Caryl