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Originally posted by nick
OK then... Here's the note from my web site:
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Downloading mp3 files and keeping them does not differ from actually stealing a CD from the store. Sure, there is only a slight chance that you will get caught with mp3 files but think about this:
1. Will you actually go and tell your friends and relatives: "It was a good day yesterday, I've managed to get out of the [insert your store name] with two CDs under my shirt." Imagine what a low life you will be in the eyes of everybody.
2. Now, how downloading mp3 files and burning CDs is in any way different...?
So, do NOT forget to delete them after listening.
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Sorry but I think that's an absurd analogy. If I go to a store and steal a cd, I'm stealing a material thing, the cd case, the cover, the cd cotaining the proper data to be played on a CD player, a material of quality. The CD store spent money on that material thing and by stealing that you are doing a direct damage to that Cd store.
Owning a mp3, if you don't have any ways to getting the actual cd is a completely harmless thing. Plus it's not as if the person who owns it would buy the cd anyway if he/she couldn't and there were no mp3s. Mp3s have a slight worse quality than the CD, plus if you burn it on CD the quality gets horrible. I don't see why you compare a computer data with a material thing.
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And... If you do not have ten bucks to spend on e-bay for a single or fifteen bucks for an album... - you have a hobby that you cannot afford then. Though I fail to see how this could be possible - if you have access to a computer and intenet, you should have the minimum amount of money needed for CDs
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If you are talking about US (or any other country with a strong currency) than I'll keep quiet (even though I bet these japanese import cds are even expensive for people who live in richer countries - unless you're japanese or live in other asian countries that have no need to import), but I'm actually not north american. Computer and internet here are quite chaeper and a LOT more useful (my parents and brothers can make use of it, while ayu is a personal taste of mine only), as are american cds which I can afford them no problem. But importing japanese cds is way too expensive because my currency is not dollar and prices in dollar usually get too much expensive (and not worth the pay) if I have to convert my currency to dolars. Plus the shipping helps to make the costs extremelly expensive.