10 response about Speechless »

1. 

   Is there a worse crime against humanity than downloading music? I think not.

   Comment by mike rot — June 19, 2009
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   I heard this on NPR this morning. The woman's quote as she left the courthouse was, “good luck getting [the money] from me.” Ha! I almost WANT to be charged for illegal dowloading music. I have so many things to say to the coke-sniffing record company execs it would be comical.

   Comment by Andrew James — June 19, 2009
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   To expand the dollar store argument – if you steal from the dollar store, you've stolen product that they then can't sell. Tangible loss. If you steal music by downloading, there's no tangible loss. There's potential loss of a purchase that you may or may not have made, as well as potential gain of purchases that you may make in the future (I've spent way more money on concerts and CDs of bands I found out about by downloading than I ever did before I started downloading).

   Comment by Jandy — June 19, 2009
4. 

   testing disqus

   Comment by mike rot — June 19, 2009
5. 

   Did it work?

   Comment by Jandy — June 19, 2009
6. 

   if you can read this it works fine

   Comment by mike rot — June 19, 2009
7. 

   Hey! Look at that. I'm actually signed in. Must've been a password issue.

   Comment by Andrew_James — June 19, 2009
8. 

   Test comment

   Comment by Andrew James — June 19, 2009
9. 

   just testing Andrew’s theory out, ignore.

   Comment by mike — June 19, 2009
10. 

    What an incredible waste of time. We should actually be really upset about this. Gov't time and money was spent on prosecution of this? What the hell for? Is this going to curb illegal downloading or pirating? I would bet money that this lady is sitting at home right now pondering on whether or not to download the latest “Seal” album. This did nothing but waste time and money and get me even more excited to steal product from the record company.

    Comment by Andrew James — June 19, 2009

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