Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, Bill Canty <bill@b...> wrote:
> gswerner2002 wrote:
> >>It's funny how this computer based world we live in has 
brainwashed us 
> >>all into believing that it's a crime to share. That's not what my 
mom 
> >>and dad taught me.
> 
> To which Kamm Schreiner replied:
> > What most people do is not sharing. If you have a car and let 
your neighbor
> > borrow it, that is "sharing". There is only one car (yours). If 
you make a
> > copy of your car by sticking it in the automobile duplicator slot 
of your
> > computer and *give* your neighbor the copy, that is stealing.
> > 
> > If you want to share, go right ahead. Let your neighbor *borrow* 
your CDs.
> > If you find that you miss those CDs, make your neighbor buy 
his/her own CD.
> 
> Ex-bloody-actly! Well put, Kamm!
> 
> I find it mind-boggling that people try to defend the theft of 
music by 
> giving it a puerile euphemism like "file sharing". I think it's 
about as 
> stupid as saying bank robbery's not a crime because you've given it 
a 
> different name, like "taking out a permanent, free loan" or 
something, 
> and then saying "My mom and dad taught me it's OK to take out a 
loan".
> 
> gswerner2002 then added:
>  >>As for the artists, I've not seen any one of them attend
>  >>the grammy's looking like he stepped out of a refrigerator box
>  >>located on homeless avenue and onto the red carpet.
> 
> I'd probably say exactly why I think that's a stupefyingly 
ridiculous 
> argument, if I could only figure out where to start...
> 
>  >>When I purchase something, it's mine!
> 
> Yep. Yours. Not the whole world's.

And still, no record exec. has gone from a mercedes to a chevy 
because of file sharing.