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RIAA Wins $1.92 Million In File-Sharing Lawsuit
A Shoggoth on the Roof:
well if we want to compare piracy between different media, PC games are the most fucked over by it. I mean, how the hell else are they supposed to get income? there's no theaters, or shows, just the game. If there's online they could charge a fee but people don't like paying for a game just to get roped into a continuous payment scheme, and you can play on private servers.
scarred:
Everyone who's anyone knows that videogames are the haunts of the criminally insane and excessively violent. They lack the revelation and catharsis of real art, providing only the simplest of escapes and barely prolonging the inherent homicidal tendencies they also provoke in their players.
Zingoleb:
I didn't really think my response through too well, other people have brought up better points and I'll go be quiet again.
Scarred, you win.
Hat:
The problem is not with the RIAA. The problem is with a legal system that cannot distinguish between somebody who casually downloads and shares songs for the purposes of exploring music, and somebody who profits from the illegal reproduction of artist's work. It cannot do this because it is based on principles of detachment and precision that do not equate to the ways that human beings actually interact in any real way.
The RIAA simply is a by-product that profits from artists who do not share Tommy's agenda of musical integrity.
pinkpiche:
What distinguishes musical craftmanship (a song/album) from let's say a painting?
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