"Hell, I pay for health care taxes and have never been in the hospital, but I won't be complaining as it gives me the protection to know that I won't be caught broke with a hospital bill I can't pay like in the US (or sued like you can be for infringement in the US). "
However, this "mp3 insurance" will not help you at all if you're caught accidentally infringing. It's the equivalent of paying for health insurance, and then getting the full bill when you finally need to go to the hospital. I wonder if you'll be complaining then...
Just charge every Australian that reads foreign websites with illegally crossing the border. I mean, their intertubes obviously had to travel all the way to America or whatever to read this site, right?
"Harm to content creators who do not want their work shared freely is sharing their work freely."
Harm to toolmakers who do not want their tools shared freely is sharing their tools freely.
Harm to clothes designers who do not want their clothes shared freely is sharing their clothes freely.
I mean, if you buy a nice blanket and someone asks you to share it with them, and the maker doesn't want you too, he also should be able to ask for a government ban or three-strikes-law on blanket-sharing. Because it's not like content creators should get any special treatment, right? What THEY want is all that matters, not what the buyer wants.
Well, in that case, he'll just have to encourage people to get the full thing, in other ways.
And the online thing, well, make the labels offer a "full disc" option too for download. But removing single tracks from the e-stores will just encourage piracy from people who want to pay for stuff.
If someone tells me he's "working to duplicate a problem", my brain doesn't turn into mush so that I can understand that he's "sitting on his lazy ass while the problem duplicates itself by magic".
Did the execs throw stuff at some kid and mock him?
Did the execs capture said scene in video and upload it?
You can convict someone for murder if he committed the crime.
You can not convict someone of murder because he built the railing from which the victim was pushed off, or because he paved the street below with bricks instead of fluffy pillows.
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I broke into your house and stole it!
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Really? Direct...communication...was not obvious?"
Yeah, didn't ya hear? Back then, nobody talked to each other, they used like, the telegraph to call their children to dinner and stuff.
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However, this "mp3 insurance" will not help you at all if you're caught accidentally infringing. It's the equivalent of paying for health insurance, and then getting the full bill when you finally need to go to the hospital. I wonder if you'll be complaining then...
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Harm to toolmakers who do not want their tools shared freely is sharing their tools freely.
Harm to clothes designers who do not want their clothes shared freely is sharing their clothes freely.
I mean, if you buy a nice blanket and someone asks you to share it with them, and the maker doesn't want you too, he also should be able to ask for a government ban or three-strikes-law on blanket-sharing. Because it's not like content creators should get any special treatment, right? What THEY want is all that matters, not what the buyer wants.
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And the online thing, well, make the labels offer a "full disc" option too for download. But removing single tracks from the e-stores will just encourage piracy from people who want to pay for stuff.
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Find a candidate from Antarctica or something, I heard they're very honest and stuff.
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If someone tells me he's "working to duplicate a problem", my brain doesn't turn into mush so that I can understand that he's "sitting on his lazy ass while the problem duplicates itself by magic".
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You lost me there.
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Did the execs capture said scene in video and upload it?
You can convict someone for murder if he committed the crime.
You can not convict someone of murder because he built the railing from which the victim was pushed off, or because he paved the street below with bricks instead of fluffy pillows.
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Keep the barrels coming, Hugo!
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Re: a sure way to lose
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OR Mike could just post "Blah blah blah", that way, we can all believe that, indeed, Mike thinks that.
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