posted on Jul, 9 2011 @ 06:08 AM
If I was a singer/songwriter/musician/author etc and I got paid on each item I sold, then I found out that someone was making copies and giving them
away, I would feel like they were taking food off of my plate and my children's plates. I made the thing, I put it "up for sale" and if you like it
you buy it, if you don't then you buy something else or nothing else. You don't steal it (or get it without paying for it) by copying it/downloading
it.
I know this is nothing new, people have been violating copyright laws for a long time, and it will not stop, but if its my copyright, I would do my
best to protect it. It's called intellectual PROPERTY for a reason, and I have the right to be secure in my own property against unwarranted
seizures.
This is about the illegal downloading, key word illegal, the same illegal that many of you use to describe illegal aliens. Against the law. If you
break the law, they can enforce consequences, whether or not you think the law is just.