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Originally Posted by brian_wilbanks
The definition and meaning of stealing has been modified for modern times.
If I steal your car. I have your car....and you're walking to work in the rain.
If I never have any intention of buying your CD because I'm too cheap and I sit and wait for someone who did purchase it to let me borrow it so I can record it, you'll live your entire life and never know the difference.
There will always be a group of people who will buy CD's...and eventually, if people do stop buying music, the death of the commercial music industry will be the greatest thing since the invention of the dildo. MTV, RCA, SONY...fuck em all
yeah, Sharron Osbourne wanted to make 10 million this year and she only made 6 million because of all the stealing....so now she cant buy Jack a Lambourghini for his birthday
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The definition of stealing hasn't changed, you've changed it to justify your actions. I did it once when i was in my 20s. I faked a back injury to take money from the big bad insurance agency which rips off its customers. Then i grew up and realized that there are other ways of "fighting" for insurance reform than willfully stealing from them. I didn't want to think of myself as a thief, so i justified it by saying that i was stealing from thieves. I STILL think they're thieves but i don't steal from them. I wish to be better than they are. You don't want to think of yourself as a thief, so you changed the definition of stealing. Cognitive dissonance 101.
Whether you download it from a friend, or off the internet or take it from a record store it's stealing. You do the first two because you KNOW you can get away with it. You don't do the later because you don't have that certainty.
Furthermore, i find it VERY hard to believe that since you started illegally downloading music there's not ANY CD's or downloads you'd buy legally. That were it not for the ability to download you'd be bereft of music and entertainment. You might have less, but you'd still have. Believe me, i aint' rich. My medical bills alone stop that.
Also you seem to be using two contradictory arguments to justify your actions: 1. The record companies are EVIL and the artists aren't really making the money anyway and 2. The artists are making too much money, and don't need it to buy their son another sports car.