User: Travelsonic

What theft? None! It's copyright infringement.

On: Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer

someone wants to create an album and limit its access only to those that pay for it then they should have the right to do so. Period.

I honestly don't disagree, and I think most of us here would agreee with out.

This constant attempt by people to try to justify theft is pathetic.

What theft? I see nothing lost from the artist's posession (except for potential revenue that he/she doesn't have yet) So what happened here then? The person infringed upon copyrights. The two crimes are different. Get it strait. Copyright infringement - the duplication od copyrighted works without the permission of the copyright older (fair use is an exception). Theft is constituted with something is taken, and the perosn it was taken from was deprived of it's use. This is a legal fact. I don't think copyright infringement is nessecarily right, there are some who don't give a damn, but to call the mindset opposed to the RIAA for ANY REASON theives, or to slanderize them by accusing them of supporting or rationalizing a crime unrelated to illegal/legal is as logical as saying 2+2=5, or that a banana is exactly the same as a grape.