full-disclosure - Re: when did piracy/theft become expression of freedom

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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:38:33 -0600
From: Laurelai <laurelai@...echan.org>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: when did piracy/theft become expression of
 freedom

On 1/28/2012 6:55 PM, Christian Sciberras wrote:
>> Actually, *most* bands that make money do so off the concert tours - tickets and
>> tshirts is where the actual money is at, not the album sales.
> So why bother with album sales in the first place?
>
> This is the same with free/commercial software. At the end of the day
> the creator decides
> the sales strategy.
>
>
> The only thing I can see in this is that the recording industry really
> needs to grow up
> to the times, but piracy is not a solution nor the means to one, just
> like DDoSing facebook
> is not the means to the removal of a certain bill/law (arguably, to
> the contrary).
>
> The recording companies have every right to retaliate just as the FBI
> has every right to
> arrest suspects involved in these childish acts.
>
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