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Then you wouldn't dismiss my links as rationalizations, and you might've chosen to respond to one or two of them, which you haven't.

This link falls halfway into a discussion of a case where a teenager has countersued the RIAA. It's an entry point at the first post in the thread by a music industry lawyer, who has been described by Dave Marsh as 'the industry's ethicist-in-chief if the industry had ethics, which it doesn't.'

He runs up against some feisty opposition who refuse to accept his assertion that downloaders are NOT thieves, and referring to them in that fashion makes the entire situation worse, especially in a situation where none of this has been decided in a court of law.

Which is pretty much what I've been saying in this thread. Either you're misinterpreting what I've been saying, or baiting me. This is not only insulting but puts you squarely on the wrong side of the discussion as I see it. Yes, that discussion that you can't believe you're having.

I fail to see how a paper like the Wall Street Journal calling for a clear rewriting of copyright law amounts to situational ethics, rationalizations, or the refusal to judge one as either being willing to steal, or not. When I recorded albums onto cassettes 25 years ago so I could listen to them on my Walkman, according to you, I was stealing. I reject this, mostly on the basis that it was copyright infringement. Did you ever do anything like that?

Seems silly now, doesn't it? Well, if you ever did anything of the sort, then you were, as you've been putting it, stealing as well, just like the PhD who sees nothing wrong with whatever infringement you discussed earlier.

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