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ConnellyBarnes

@oregonstate.edu

Information (still) wants to be free

Intellectual property is a contradiction.

Fair use is any use.

There is no "theft" in downloading a file. A corollary of Adam Smith's arguments for capitalism: a download would not occur if it harmed either party involved. Therefore, free communication of information gives the best possible information structure. The gvt is stealing from our culture and our future by turning the potential information power of the Internet into a pop-infested commercial wasteland.

You don't have to listen to me. Perhaps Copyright is the just and moral way. However, we will all be downloading entire video stores in ~20 years. Meditate on that.


TheSaint

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Agreed, in parts. We must promote sites that have new music/videos/content/news that aren't the same recycled garbage found on the likes of AOL, MSN, CNN and the other major portal sites. Try using an different email than your hotmail account, turn off the damn t.v. and read a book or post your own news on your own site.

The average Joe needs to learn to grow up in terms of branching out from the crap that is produced by major companies that only enforce and promote censorship, laughable lawsuits against filesharers (instead of providing a cheap, legal download service > $.50 song, not $1.00 a pop, cd's are approx. $1 a song, where's the advantage of using a legal d/l service?).

If you must listen to the music that the RIAA puts out, try getting the cd's used on half.com or ebay. Quit putting money in the coffers of the greedy scam arists RIAA and start speaking out with the most powerful tool that the average Joe has:

The Almighty, Good Ol' Fashion American Greenback!

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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