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Originally Posted by soundrick  Then when does it become so? If it suddenly became legal through some loophole, or everyone WAS doing it, you'd still be complaining about it. So what?
Do you have a problem with people smoking pot? It's illegal (to some degree), however a bigger problem with some of the moral majority is that it's a drug and "bad". So when it gets legalized, is that all it will take to shut them up? I doubt it.
I'd say we at least agree that people should be responsible, but I see day-in and day-out people NOT being responsible.
If people could be convinced somehow to do the right thing all the time, we could solve a lot more important problems in the world than just illegal filesharing.
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The reason it is illegal and the reason it is disagreed on is because it is damaging. And it's not just damaging, it's damaging to someone else and depriving them of choice.
You bring up pot. That isn't any more damaging than legal substances, and the damages those do are to ones self and thus one has a choice to damage themselves of not. With music piracy however, it's damaging not only to individuals, but to an entire economic eco system. And it's damaging other people and taking away their rights. You're not allowing them the right to decide if they want their product to be stolen. And this is why stealing music, like stealing anything is illegal. Pot is illegal mainly due to religious beliefs. That doesn't allow one to dismiss any law they want just because they find one that cannot be morally justified.
And you're saying this is not an important problem? $12.5 billion dollars a year lost. 70,000 US jobs a year lost, then factor in all the lost wages, taxes, corporate income, and everything else that feeds into the economic eco system and it's a HUGE problem. It doesn't matter if someone listens to music or not, we're all economically affected by this. Just like we're all affected by the bank problems, and by the real estate problems. Just like how we're all affected by oil prices even if we don't drive.