2007-03-18 11:22:59 · 4 answers · asked by stinky20@sbcglobal.net 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Well put the shoe on the other foot.
If you were an artist and you had a record, you get paid when the record sells and you get a royalty on each sale.
Now comes along those who think you have been paid enough for your record so they post a copy on the internet and those who want it can simply download it for nothing.
You stop being paid and since that is the only record you ever made you have no income and your family looses their home, the ability to eat. etc.
You see the harm?
The truth is theft is theft, even if you are not caught it is illegal!
If you get caught there are penalties. That is the way it works.
If someone took your money, would it be illegal? Would it be wrong? I think the only answer is YES to both. When you take "free" music which is not being offered from the owner, you are taking someone elses money.
2007-03-18 13:14:47 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the music is truly free, then it is not wrong. If it is pirated then it is really stealing. It's like someone taking your computer you have paid for and giving it to someone else. Doesn't hurt them but you are out for what you have work hard to get.
2007-03-18 11:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by tazman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is not any stable concept. As you suggested Kant does not paintings because of the fact: Kant might say any regulation that ought to no longer be made frequently going on could be unethical. If each and every person in basic terms downloaded track then might the track industry cave in? of direction no longer! What might cave in are "track labels" that rip off money from artists for "distribution precise". If each and every person might in basic terms acquire track there could be no choose for track labels, artists might launch their track freely, and in basic terms stable track might get acquire. Now you are able to ask why might artists launch track for loose? undemanding, maximum artists make money on concerts besides, no longer on CDs(labels make money on CDs), so whilst people might like the track they downloaded they could be extra probable to circulate to an artist's stay overall performance -- ensuing in extra gross revenues for an artist.
2016-10-02 08:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its only illegal if you get caught, which is almost impossible.
2007-03-18 11:27:26 · answer #4 · answered by Seth P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋