(no subject) The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 May 2009 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5455 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org — 22 May 2009, 18:49 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jordon Flato — 22 May 2009, 18:53 in reply to sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org Aquarius has a pretty big selection I think. Tell them Jordon sent you. > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, wrote: > > does anyone know where to get used mp3s? > > ~witz > > > On Wed May 20 17:44 , Adam Thornton sent: > > On May 20, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Stuart Hamm wrote: > > No one's gonna back me? Don't we all rush out and buy a first edition of > GW's new books instead of downloading an illegal copy??? > > > Yeah. > > My own position is that downloading media illegally is some-kind-of-bad > (me, I still prefer to buy physical CDs and then rip them to iTunes, so that > I have unprotected files which I can then copy to whatever music player I > may have in the future that might not be an iPod), but it's not exactly > *theft*. Copyright infringement is not, in my mind, the same crime as, say, > stealing your TV. > > I do not, however, think there's a one-to-one correspondence between lost > sales and illegal downloads. That is, plenty of people download things that > they're idly curious about, but nowhere near enough interested in to buy. > Now, one can, quite correctly, make the point that they SHOULDN'T OUGHTA BE > USING IT then. Fair enough. > > But mainly I was just bringing it up as a counterpoint to Brunians' > absolutist Property Rights statement, by pointing out that there are some > things which some people consider legitimate property rights, and others do > not. > > Adam > > > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------