I would suggest that their belief is that hypocrisy would be if they made their money stealing US booze during prohibition.
There are many people all over the world that will gladly break the law by possesing marijuana, but wouldn't consider stealing a nickel from anybody. They believe the prohibition itself is wrong.
Whereas the "sharing" of files is seen by the music industry as theft of intellectual property. Something likely the Bronfmans wouldn't consider (interesting that they don't see the billions they bilked the Canadian Taxpayer out of by keeping it in offshore corps isn't immoral).
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I would suggest that their belief is that hypocrisy would be if they made their money stealing US booze during prohibition.
There are many people all over the world that will gladly break the law by possesing marijuana, but wouldn't consider stealing a nickel from anybody. They believe the prohibition itself is wrong.
Whereas the "sharing" of files is seen by the music industry as theft of intellectual property. Something likely the Bronfmans wouldn't consider (interesting that they don't see the billions they bilked the Canadian Taxpayer out of by keeping it in offshore corps isn't immoral).
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