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Originally Posted by olivia_nb  I could be mistaken here, but I thought copyright was only to protect intellectual property and not physical property, so it protects us from someone else claiming our creations or profiting from reproducing our creations. It really doesn't say a lot about theft of a CD from a store or the theft of an mp3 from a server? (honestly asking here) |
Stealing CDs is theft. Stealing MP3s from a server is copyright violation. 'Copy Right' is the right to control copies being made of your intellectual property. It is what it says. When someone makes a copy of your IP, that's copyright violation. You can allow it in specific circumstances. I.e. the RIAA doesn't say you should't be able to rip your own CDs to your own computer. But when you give a copy to another person and keep a copy for yourself, that's copyright violation.
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I honestly don't see downloading as a good thing or a bad thing, I see it as a reality that has taken hold (one that could have been mitigated with some foresight, but oh well).  |
I completely fail to see what foresight could have mitigated it. No matter what happened, it would have become freely shareable, the technology would have been there to do that. We'd have ended up in this same situation no matter what.