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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Another exceedingly weak justification. Speeding, while illegal, does not pull income out of someone else's pocket.
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Nobody
ever died because someone else downloaded an MP3!
Some things that are grossly neglected in a lot of the arguments against filesharing:
1) Is it "lost revenue" if the "perpetrator" would have never purchased the music in the first place? The RIAA, MPAA, et al seem to think so, but they have a vested interest in equating every download of one of their products as a lost sale. I call BS.
2) Actual "theft" can be turned to a benefit for the perpetrator by fencing the stolen goods. Please show me examples of filesharers who have turned a financial profit out of their downloaded music/video/whatever
3) Some studies have shown that downloading actually leads to INCREASED purchasing of music. I know
for a fact that this is true in some cases, though I do not have the numbers available to prove it on a large scale one way or the other.