How can one steal if they have taken something but have not denied the "owner" of anything. I know I know, that is an over simplification of what is going on because in America we have copyrights. Where a corporation owns the work of another person and often the artist is treated much like a tenent farmer. It is true that we do not need the corporation for the distribution of music over the internet. Napster could be modified just as many others have speculated to charge for each song, and an artist could make a great deal more money off that than slavery to a corporate master. Music and corporation, two things that just do not go together. One is "supposedly" a form of expresion, an ART. A corporation is Greed, GREED and a side order of slavery. We do not need them, especially in music. Think of Metallica, did they start out with a huge corporate sponser writing their lyrics?
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How can one steal if they have taken something but have not denied the "owner" of anything. I know I know, that is an over simplification of what is going on because in America we have copyrights. Where a corporation owns the work of another person and often the artist is treated much like a tenent farmer. It is true that we do not need the corporation for the distribution of music over the internet. Napster could be modified just as many others have speculated to charge for each song, and an artist could make a great deal more money off that than slavery to a corporate master. Music and corporation, two things that just do not go together. One is "supposedly" a form of expresion, an ART. A corporation is Greed, GREED and a side order of slavery. We do not need them, especially in music. Think of Metallica, did they start out with a huge corporate sponser writing their lyrics?