p2pnet.net News View- The Big Four record label cartel is suing another batch of innocent people for having the temerity to share music with each other online.

It calls this theft.

It isn’t, not even nearly, but the labels have never bothered with such trifling inconsequentials as telling the truth.

Here’s a p2pnet reader’s thoughts on the subject.

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BECAUSE THEY CAN

I was explaining this issue to my friend WHO FILE SHARES, yet he ASTUTELY remains ADAMANT that "file sharing" is EQUIVALENT to "stealing."

Without getting into the nitty gritty, basically "theft" implies several things: (1) To take without permission something from another person, and (2) that idividual LOSES the object.

But semantics aside, we started talking about something interesting. I was telling him that movie trailers were "cunningly" deceptive in their portrayal of the movie plot and its contents.

We all agreed that deceiving the public in commercial operations is illegal, yet the RIAA / MPAA still do it. Then we started thinking —- they do it BECAUSE THEY CAN.

So then we saw a startling similarity …

… people file share BECAUSE THEY CAN.

So it all boils down to have the ‘ability / power’ to do what you want.

Hence, we see THE RECENT BASH of LAWS BEING REWRITTEN and POLICE NOT PERFORMING THEIR DUTY, but working for the MPAA / RIAA (on Taxpayers money) —- all in the attempt to increase their "power."

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See:-
another batch – RIAA sues 765 in new attack, p2pnet, July 28, 2005

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