What I meant was that, saying something is being stolen in this case is saying that the artist is losing money they wouldn't have made in the first place. They certainly aren't losing music, since it's copied for free anyway.
I can't see that the artist is losing anything, so I don't consider it atealing.
And you're 100% correct, it isn't right for the artists to get no compensation, but I don't think they get very much from CD sales. Granted, it gets their name out there, but I think that most of their money comes from live touring (although I'm not an expert by far). If that's true, which it may or may not be, it seems like the only way the current model helps the artists is by getting their name out there.
But I'm probably wrong and look like a jackass.
I fail to see how it's equal to stealing in this case, in ANY meaningful way, when the people who are downloading copies of the music probably weren't going to buy it in the first place.
Unfortunately you're confusing stealing, where the property owner actually loses something, and copyright infringement, which, arguably, is quite a different thing.
It is, and they don't particularly need to switch to Linux, but the parent said that if they did that they would lose control of changes, which is just wrong. The whole idea of the license Linux is released under is to ensure freedom, including the freedom to make whatever changes you want, granted you release them to the community at large.
I don't want science genetically engineering my food, I don't want them making meals that can be served 7 years later. I don't want the cancer or other diseases that come with it.
Why do you assume genetically engineered food causes cancer and disease?
The world has done very well without scientists mucking up our food sources. How many thousands of years have people lived off what the earth grows?
How many thousands of years have people had cancer and disease? What does whether our food is genetically modified or not have to do with people living. Can't we live on genetically modified food?
I now see in my grocery store "organic milk", it is priced twice as expensive as the gallon of regular milk. The same thing is in produce, they have organic vegitables. What is this? 20 years ago everything was organic, now only the rich can get normal food. The rest of us must eat crap that has been genetically modified.
Why do you call it crap? You haven't really made a point.
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What I meant was that, saying something is being stolen in this case is saying that the artist is losing money they wouldn't have made in the first place. They certainly aren't losing music, since it's copied for free anyway. I can't see that the artist is losing anything, so I don't consider it atealing.
And you're 100% correct, it isn't right for the artists to get no compensation, but I don't think they get very much from CD sales. Granted, it gets their name out there, but I think that most of their money comes from live touring (although I'm not an expert by far). If that's true, which it may or may not be, it seems like the only way the current model helps the artists is by getting their name out there. But I'm probably wrong and look like a jackass.
I fail to see how it's equal to stealing in this case, in ANY meaningful way, when the people who are downloading copies of the music probably weren't going to buy it in the first place.
Unfortunately you're confusing stealing, where the property owner actually loses something, and copyright infringement, which, arguably, is quite a different thing.
like flies, eh?
i guess that's why myspace has so few visiters: all the ads.
Why can't you spell "porn?"
How about http://www.google.com/search?q=xenu&start=0&ie=utf -8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US :official ?
It is, and they don't particularly need to switch to Linux, but the parent said that if they did that they would lose control of changes, which is just wrong. The whole idea of the license Linux is released under is to ensure freedom, including the freedom to make whatever changes you want, granted you release them to the community at large.
They would NOT lose control of changes, they'd just have to release the source of the changes they make in their version of the kernel.
Better sue. There's a law for that now.
The farmers should file a counter-suit against Monsanto for ruining their crops.
They'd probably win.
You know, he may be a hack, but it's still a logical fallacy to disregard his opinion pieces completely because of that.
Although it's from a Christian website, this link discusses and debunks that Art Bell story.
And screen works even better!
I don't want science genetically engineering my food, I don't want them making meals that can be served 7 years later. I don't want the cancer or other diseases that come with it.
Why do you assume genetically engineered food causes cancer and disease?
The world has done very well without scientists mucking up our food sources. How many thousands of years have people lived off what the earth grows?
How many thousands of years have people had cancer and disease? What does whether our food is genetically modified or not have to do with people living. Can't we live on genetically modified food?
I now see in my grocery store "organic milk", it is priced twice as expensive as the gallon of regular milk. The same thing is in produce, they have organic vegitables. What is this? 20 years ago everything was organic, now only the rich can get normal food. The rest of us must eat crap that has been genetically modified.
Why do you call it crap? You haven't really made a point.
That's basically like saying, "Sorry, guy, you aren't making bread from scratch! You're mixing flour and eggs and water!"
You might as well say nothing is made from scratch since EVERYTHING is made by manipulating pre-existing ingredients.
The original idea of it was to be used as an alternative term for Free Software.
F/OSS isn't about "do it yourself" so much as it's about freedom.
you forgot tigerdirect ;)
At least you can replace the gas.
Wrong.
Linux, the kernel, was started in Finland.
The core of the OS, GNU, was started in USA.
Sharing copyrighted music isn't theft; it's copyright infringement.