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If they're not paying for the music, they're not customers.

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Amen.

The correct response to overpricing is to not purchase. If BMWs are too high, I don't steal one from the dealer - I buy something else. If I have to buy seven Neons in order to get one Corvette, I forego the Corvette. This idea that there is some moral justification for ripping off music just because we can is absurd.

(P.S. I do it too. I don't have any defense for myself in doing so. But, I just know it ain't right.)

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Sorry. When I solicited people's thoughts on this, I probably should have specified that Timmys Need Not Respond.



Edited to add: Timmy!!!

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There was more to the post than timmism (thank you for getting it Bilmore; I now don't have to go into a paigowesque diatribe explaining how my comment was too smart for all the FB commoners). I'm not troubled by stores prosecuting shoplifters, even though they could be "customers." I don't see a significant difference between that and pursuing purveyors of "free" music.

Or were you looking for a good argument to justify your collection of 4000 mp3s that you downloaded for free?

edited to add parenthetical

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For the love of Pete! The two (or three or four) are not mutually exclusive. I'm starting to believe you never even met her fucked up grandparents.

TM

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Hmm, good point. Now I know what FB really stands for.

Dear RIAA,

You didn't give me a subpoena, and my good Christian conscience can't let this go unnoticed, but over the last few months I have downloaded approximatley 110 copywritten songs from Kazaa Lite. Among them are an acoustic version of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn," Queen's "Somebody to Love," and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline." I know this has hurt the earnings of all artist's involved, damaged the monthly sales of Tower Records, and undercut the integrity of the music industy as a whole. For this I am sorry. Please throw me in jail before I kill again.

Sincerely,

bilmore

P.S.
Oh...I also downloaded "Magic Stick" by Lil' Kim featuring 50 Cent. I'm sorry for that, too.


(I even stole the text of this letter)

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"Frequently Bipolar".

The only truly offensive part of your post lies in labeling my conscience "christian".

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For FB, yes, but for fb, it's f(ucking)b(itch). Now that I'm ltl/fb it could be (That l)it(tl)e/f(ucking)b(itch), except, we might be wanting to insult me for being fat and then the "little" would be a misnomer.

That's ok. Plagiarism is in.

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Is it just me or is he looking more and more like Don Knotts with each passing year.

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Apropos of this, Corvettes are the apex of white trashness (white trashocity?)

"I'm fine-ly movin' up from ma Firebird, Cletus!"

Edited to add that I would, however, pay good money for the Trans Am Billy Madison drives. But I would have to be wearing his REO Speedwagon 3/4 length t-shirt while driving it.

Seriously, I want that Speedwagon shirt.

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While there are several on the FB who would gladly provide you with the Brazilian Persian, we cannot in good conscience let you wear a white suit. WAAAAAAY too International Male for you.

http://www.internationalmale.com/Han...ges/i893ux.jpg

Whatever happened to TIM, anyway?

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Geez, next time I'll add a smiley-face so you (and Paigow) understand that I'm responding to a joke with a joke.

I agree with your shoplifter comparison. I guess I'm just at a loss to understand why people seem to find it so shocking that the RIAA might want to enforce the rights of music copyright holders -- even to the point of suing consumers, as a last resort. I s'pose a board of lawyers is not the best place to gain an understanding of what the people complaining about this are thinking.