Comment by icebraining
12 years ago
Yes. Downloading an album or movie without paying for it is illegal. This isn't in dispute.
Actually, not where I live. But the point is that the situations are different, because I don't have an agreement with any artist. Whether that makes it illegal to use copyright works was not the issue in discussion. What was being discussed was the supposed hypocrisy of anti-copyright people.
there wasn't any contract.
There's was an implied agreement. Whether he has a legal foot to stand on is irrelevant to this discussion, because we weren't talking about the legality of the situation, but what it should be.
> There's was an implied agreement.
There is also an implied agreement that when an artist asks you to pay $12 for a CD, that you pay for it. This isn't very hard to understand.
And so I ask again, when did I agree to that, in an explicit or implicit way? And you yourself answered, "you didn't if you downloaded it without paying". So no, there isn't.
When did you agree to let the police protect you if they encounter you being mugged?
Some things are just part of societal existence. You can't opt out of them any more than you can opt out of paying your taxes on profits you make.
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