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Those crazy singlespeeders over On-One had one of these games made by a friend or something like that. It supposedly brought them a lot of business, or at least a lot of website hits.
You're arguing more semantics than the issue itself here. All of your analogies involve physical objects, or objects that cannot be duplicated infinitely (cars, gasoline, electricity). Obviously though, with downloading music you aren't depriving someone else of their copy in order for you to use it. The fact remains, though, that you are depriving the artist of compensation for their work when you take advantage of it for free. Fine. Don't call it stealing. You're still cheating/ripping off/whatevering the artist, semantics be damned.
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Those crazy singlespeeders over On-One had one of these games made by a friend or something like that. It supposedly brought them a lot of business, or at least a lot of website hits.
You're arguing more semantics than the issue itself here. All of your analogies involve physical objects, or objects that cannot be duplicated infinitely (cars, gasoline, electricity). Obviously though, with downloading music you aren't depriving someone else of their copy in order for you to use it. The fact remains, though, that you are depriving the artist of compensation for their work when you take advantage of it for free. Fine. Don't call it stealing. You're still cheating/ripping off/whatevering the artist, semantics be damned.