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Legal Issues Don't Bother American Downloaders
An anonymous reader writes "Ipsos-Reid has released its latest research on file trading. Bottom line, the great majority of users do not believe they are breaking the law. Only 9% feel there is anything wrong with their actions. With 40 million Americans identified as active file traders this is indeed stirring information, though not surprising. Another stat, 73% of US downloaders report that their motivation for trading was to sample music for later purchase. You can see the charts and original press release here."
This is not a troll. This is the cold hard truth. The guilty take the truth hard. 'nuff said.
Because we don't live in a Democracy in the United States, and the will of the people at large is irrelevant to the workings of government.
You can just as easily apply your thoughts to other laws like speed limits: most drivers will exceed the posted speed limit at some point during a trip and not feel guilty about it. Most will probably go over by 5mph or more.
Why then, if the VAST majority of drivers think that driving faster than the speed limit is okay, is it still illegal?
Who really gets hurt by speeders? Why is it still illegal when the majority consider it to be okay?
Because majority doesn't rule here, money does, and the "people" collectively can't throw money at politicians like large corporations can.
Article X: The powers not delegated... by the Constitution...are reserved...to the people
Ok, so some moderidiot will surely mod this post down as Offtopic. However, if you're so inclined, think again: A couple of days ago, Hillary Rosen did say that downloading music funds terrorism. So there!