Re: In a quandry

["John Davis" <johnd at antioch-college_edu>]

Wes Morgan <wesm at libretech_org> writes:
> Many (if not most) of the people 
>sharing (no quotes) mp3s do not consider themselves criminals and resent 
>being told that they are criminals. 

I wasn't really aruging that the file "sharers" see themselves one way or
another, but rather that the RIAA is going to alienate the only people who
actually still buy music with thier current strategy. How file "sharers"
see themselves shouldn't matter as much as how people who buy music should
to the RIAA, because one group doesn't buy anything, and the other still
does. It'd behoove the RIAA to *not* piss off people who still buhy music
is all I'm saying. They have no reason to care about the opinion of the
"sharing" people, because they 've already lost the business.

As far as the natural law and all that goes:

I don't think there's such a thing as "natural law", and if you think a
law is bad, by all means disobey it, but as Thoreau or MLK would say,
accept the legal consequences of your civil disobedienace. 

And: artists gotta eat. Linford and Karin may only get a pittance of what
they deserve, but the recrod label's exploitation if artist doesn't give
me the right to further the exploitation by not ensuring they don't even
get the pittance. Two wrongs, blah blah blah.



- John

John Paul Davis
Center for Community Learning
Antioch College
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