Originally posted by: syberscott
You claim that piracy has not hurt record sales. Then you say that you don't buy cd's anymore because of copyright protection. Why do you think the copyright protection is there? Because people steal the music. See the circle?
It doesn't matter how many excuses there are or how many people rationalize it; it's still wrong and illegal to steal music, period.
Piracy does not hurt sales. Copyprotection can hurt sales because people do not want to buy crippled discs. I don't care what their reasons are for doing it, all I know that:
1. The disc I buy may not work on my hardware
2. I'm being prevented to listen to the music I buy using the means of my choosing (my choice is to rip that music on my HD and convert it to mp3's. All that is perfectly legal and proctected under fair-use laws)
3. I'm being sold discs that do not meet the requirements to be called "CD" or "compact disc"
4. The discs I'm being sold are more error-prone and they have reduced longevity due to artificial error planted in them
And downloading music from the net is not stealing. Get your facts straight