My Moral of P2P Network, F2F Network, and F2F Sneakernet File Sharing
(Music Piracy = ‘yes’ to both Both P2P network sharing and F2F sneakernet sharing)
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Underoath uses file sharing ‘marketing’. “The six-member band shocked the music industry in June when its most recent album debuted at No. 2 on the nation’s pop charts despite zero airplay on mainstream commercial radio and no presence on MTV” - old fashioned copyright is for the days when only highly financed businesses could violate it enough to cause noticeable damage to a ’sale of copies’ business model, ie.. printed books before the 1990s and vinyl records before the 1970s.
“No, because the artists are making billions of dollars any ways.” - Correction (to quoted teen) - The artist doesn’t make the billions. The Record companies do. Majorly popular artists may get several million, but their record company is getting at least a hundred times that.
“Spread the Word vs “Thou shalt not steal” - Expand to: Encourage worship of God (or in case of the Bible, spread the Word of God or spread the gospel) vs not depriving publishers of the ability to get revenue from exclusive control of the creation and distribution of copies. In the bible, I know that the Amplified Version and the New Living Translation are full-restrictions (’all rights reserved’) copyrighted at the isolated translated-text level. Most popular gospel music is published by RIAA-member labels and are full-restrictions copyrighted (legally, anyway)….
“The study shows that born again Christian teens are not much different than are non-born again teens in terms of holding an anti-piracy moral position. Just 10% of Christian teens believe that copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music downloading are morally wrong, compared to 6% of non-born agains (the four-point difference barely qualified as statistically significant). Also, the proportion of pragmatists was statistically equivalent - 64% of born again Christians and 66% of non-Christians.
One of the most troubling findings of the survey was the fact that most teens opposed to music piracy are not entirely convinced that their perspectives are correct. Just 1 in every 3 teens (36%) who take the piracy-is-wrong view said they feel very certain of that stance. That means just 1 out of every 50 American teens is strongly convinced that it is wrong to copy CDs for friends or to download music illegally. To make matters worse, two-thirds of those teens who embrace piracy (64%) are convinced of their views. “
I think downloading an individual mp3 song or album archive or discography archive from a P2P file sharing network is morally wrong if you never purchased a copy of your own before (even if it is a vinyl record, 8-Track, cassette tape, or DRM-download; doesn’t have to be function as long as it used to function) and if you have no intention in buying it, but would buy it if the pirated copy was not available. My violation of that is was at about 20% for music (same for movies, lower for PC games, higher for non-PC games, non-game software, and books), and increasing due to my resentment of the RIAA and MPAA civil-settlement extortion and deceptive propaganda programs. It is probably about 40-50% now. I do keep my two favorite artists - Sepultura and Soulfly (Sepultura only up to Dante XXI b/c of Igor Cavalera’s departure) - 100% morally right and 100% legal.
I think sharing a CD with or getting a CD from a friend is only wrong if the P2P moral is violated and the person I got the copy from isn’t a close friend or family member (such as classmates I barely know). I think it is perfectly ok to give away free CDs to your family and significant friends, though I know it is not what the law says, but the RIAA and MPAA are in control of the law these days.
“copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music downloading” in the survey is a boolean AND - both must be marked ‘yes’. Kids who answered yes to one and no to the other got put into the “pragmatists” category.
These ‘astonishing’ numbers just show how wrong the RIAA’s intent of total consumer control via monopolistic control of the supply of music is.
(Update 2007-03-28 — Fixed 3rd Link)
March 28th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
100% morally right and 100% legal?
March 28th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Yup I own all the main album CDs of both Sepultura and SoulFly. 3 Singles too (2 Soulfly). That’s the Moral part. I’m not currently sharing any on eMule, but this is mostly because of bandwidth (I have many other files I prefer to share). So it is also coincidentially legal too. I do have several bootlegs (Rock in Rio, Live at the Max, others) that I don’t think you can legally buy at all. Oh I own legit copies of all the DVD videos too (3x Sepultura-Max, 1x Soulfly, 1xSepultura-Derrick).
March 28th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Oh the main reason that owning the legit CDs is necessarily for me to be morally right in regards to Sepultura (up to Dante XXI) and Soulfly is because I would most definitly buy the CDs should free P2P downloads not be available. To be honest, I actually bought the Dante XXI album 6 months after downloading the album-archive from eMule. I think that’s alright, as long as I eventually buy it. I won’t be replacing it with another legit CD if something happens to it though. I downloaded Dante XXI just over two weeks prior the release date. They were 192kpbs. I replaced the downloaded MP3s with a 160kbps self-rip after buying the CD.