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iTMS Sells 100,000,000th Song

Posted by Hemos on from the still-going-strong dept.

Macslacker writes "At 10:26 PM PDT on Sunday, July 11, Apple apparently sold its 100 millionth song at the iTunes Music Store. While the contest may now be over, congrats to Apple for a job well done."

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  1. Your wrong, copyright infringement is not theft! by Luscious868 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    fuck off any asshole that references piracy is not theft
    How does garbage like this get modded up? "Fuck off any asshole that references piracy is not theft"? Ok, well I guess I'll go ahead and bite. Piracy is not theft! If you think it is, then you are simply uneducated. One is a criminal offense and the other is a civil offense and for a very good reason. When you steal something you are physically depriving someone of an item and they can no longer use it, sell it, etc. When you commit copyright infringement (piracy) nobody is physically deprived of anything because it's impossible to know if the infringer would have paid for the copyrighted item in the first place. Therefore copyright infringement (piracy) is a civil matter and theft is a criminal matter. They are not one in the same. They are in differnt and are thus are treated as such by law.

    If you insist otherwise you are simply wrong. You can make arguments about stealing being just as morally reprehesible as copyright infrigmanet all day long and I'm willing to listen and would probably agree to a certain extent, but when you state that theft and copyright infringement are one and the same you're simply mistaken.