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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [qb]And I'll also say that I do largely agree with you, Cartman. I'm just not keen on the ever so slight hypocricy that comes up on stuff like this, eg "I never download illegal music, ever!". But yeah, 10 year prison sentences are stupid, music is vastly overpriced, etc etc.[/qb][/QUOTE]I have no special love for hypocrisy myself. So when I read something like this, knowing that the congressmen pushing for the legislation on P2P programs are on the RIAA's payroll and that said RIAA likes to feed people false and misleading information, including artificially deflated sales figures (because it really isn't about music theft or intellectual property violations, but about the profit margins of an industry that has been relying on obsolete, pre-internet business models for 15 years and is now shifting the blame for its conservatism to consumers), I get aggravated. And when I then think of the double standard employed by companies like Sony (one of the loudest members of the RIAA) that on the one hand condemn piracy and on the other collect millions with their CDRs, VHS tapes, and DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD+whatevers, which I have to pay a COPYING TAX for (see Grokca's post), I get REALLY aggravated. Yes I do. And a simplistic argument like "they're trying to stop people from stealing music" doesn't go over too well with me when I'm aggravated. As you've no doubt noticed by now. (And I hate slapping you with another link, but: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/27/1043534002352.html) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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