Now the kid must be told to go and find his music on MySpace Music, or else…

hong kong is really stupid about these laws, they enforce it only after something big happens

the whole edison thing cause “lost of face” for the division so they are grasping at straws to get back their reputation..so stupid

Hey guys! Lets go support the music industry! They sued my mom last week and now were homeless but who cares! I want that new brittany spears cd!

Or….. am I wrong?”

First I must congratulate on your being one of the few (if not first) anti piracy poster here with a civil tone. I, for one, always welcome a fair “fight” such as it is.

To keep this semi-short, ip rights have some place in the world no doubt. Due compensation for creative and/or beneficial works makes sense lest there wouldn’t be as great an incentive to invest the time to make them.

However, in an age where replication and redistribution can be made at a cost of virtually nil the method of compensation needs to change. To criminalize anyone who is essentially allowing another to listen in on a work, which the new consumer may or may not like, is certainly not the way to go about it. Would any reasonable company turn down free advertising? There are several artists that had the name not come up in some random browsing of torrent sites I would likely never have heard of much less purchased any works of.

Rather than go on for miles I’ll nip this off here, but real quick I’ll add that the old bit of “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” is no longer an altruism. Public perception is the driving force behind your markets and those leaving a bad taste with the public seldom benefit from it.

the people are things to harvest. and destroy when they become fallow.

when you pass on the responsibility of saftey and freedom to a small group of people, you basically gave away any rights you had at that point.