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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
my problem with what the RIAA is doing is, I can't see how this falls under copyright infringement.
No one is making derivative music from anything they have, and no one (in the general group we're discussing) is trying to profit from the sharing. They're simply sharing. For free.
If someone is burning CDs and selling bootleg copies at a swap meet, sure... blatant, obvious, copyright infringement for profit. But how does sharing your CD (non-profit) with a friend constitute copyright infringement? Because they didn't PAY for it? I find that hard to swallow too. If I feel like it, I'll box up my entire CD & DVD collections and give them away to whoever the hell I choose. Is that also "copyright infringement"?
I think not. But that is what the RIAA is claiming, in a nutshell.
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Arguably they could say "one copy - one license".
When you box up your DVDs and CDs and send them to a buddy .. They are now completely in his possesion. If you want to watch them again, you'll need to get them back. Failing that, you'll have to buy them again.
When you share music on the internet, you are really just making a "copy". If by sharing the song, it was removed from your hard drive completely, it might be a different story.
Hey I agree with you 100% on fuck the RIAA. Gready bastards. Nobody's starving in the recording industry.
I think there was a study released recently that said music sharing is NOT hurting record sales. Don't know what study it was though.