DownloadingReading this post from Michele Catalano reminds me of one of the reasons why I'm in favor of prosecuting downloaders: many of them have no respect for private property. It's not that they don't think they're stealing, or that they really wouldn't have bought the album if they had not downloaded it. My problem with them is that they know they're stealing, and they don't care. Many of these people want the record companies to go out of business through their activities. This piece from several weeks ago is representative. The writer thinks that he has come up with a new and legal way to fileshare that will survive the courts. Also, if his "Snapster" plan is indeed legal and implemented, all the record companies would go bankrupt. Which, of course, is exactly what he wants: But what about the poor record companies and their owners?Completely missing from his analogy was the part where the auto companies investors stole the horses from the carriages. Whether it's a good strategy for the RIAA to target individual downloaders, I don't know, but I sure won't have any sympathy for those who got caught. |
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