21 Aug
2015
21 Aug
'15
7:36 p.m.
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Evan Koblentz wrote:
No, they're not stealing from you. Quit taking talking points from the
RIAA.
g.
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That's why I speak out against attempts to
paint copyright violation as
other things, such as theft: it's an appeal to emotions, trying to equate
"thing I want people to oppose" with "very different thing I expect people
already consider bad". It's a fundamentally dishonest bit of oratory.
I write for a (meager) living. If someone were to take my work and decide for
themselves that it should be online for free, then they ARE stealing from me.
That is reality, not the semantics of case law.