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Shhhh....
I'm going to say this really quietly, so nobody will hear it without getting real close to their computer screen.
Ready?
Like it or not, all of you are breaking the law. And, it isn't the stars and other artists who you hurt the most. It's the janitors, and receptionists, and mail room people and all of the other who work for the record labels. That's where a large part of record sales receipts go, you know. To overhead.
Oh, and you might be interested to know that very few of the "big" record companies are making much money either. Some are in a fair amount of financial trouble.
So, think of this. Let's say that you are working your way through college selling photographs that you take. But the person who develops the pictures decides to make a whole lot of bootleg copies and give them away to your customers. Is that fair?
No. It isn't.
It isn't likely that anyone who is a "social" downloader will have a problem. But, the fact is, if you are caught...you're guilty.
That's what copyright is about. It's not hard to understand. People expect to be paid for the work they do.
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Fraternally,
DeltAlum
DTD
The above is the opinion of the poster which may or may not be based in known facts and does not necessarily reflect the views of Delta Tau Delta or Greek Chat -- but it might.
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