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Originally Posted by Aether
For something to be a crime, it must be something punishable by a law. Thus, I would find it rather difficult to not see it as a crime. However, I do not see it as great of crime as some would say. If I were to obtain music by torrent or music from a friend, in both cases I would be breaking the law as it stands, acquiring music through sharing. But do I necessarily agree with the law when it says that is wrong? Not completely, and I certainly do not agree with the law being able to punish average everyday people who could just as simply be one of us on these forums by forcing them to pay obscene amounts of money.
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As I said earlier "sharing" is a term pirates use to make illegal copying and distribution sound the same as "sharing" music with a friend.
If you were a musician, would you have a problem with a fan sharing your music with a friend? Of course not. You would want your music to be introduced by fans.
However, this is not the kind of "sharing" we are talking about. We are talking about the copying and distribution (dare I say, mass distribution) of someone's work, a copyrighted material. Artists do not support illegal DLing, and have taken a variety of approaches to deal with it. Surely things cannot go on as they are, and things will change, but that doesn't make DLing any more legal or right than it was 5 years ago.