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The record industry likes to talk about music piracy being theft, but in fact it is violation of intellectual property, which is very different. If I steal one of your material possessions, I deprive you of the ability to use that possession. If I copy a track off a CD, that doesn't affect your ability to listen to the CD. Also, the record industry would like to think that every copy made or MP3 downloaded is a sale that's lost. I, for one, am a counter-example. I will download albums, listen to them, then decide that they are good and buy them, sometimes on both CD and vinyl. Alternatively, there are people who just wouldn't buy music regardless of whether they could download it or not. The prevalence of music piracy just shows that there is an enormous rift between the existing pricing model for music and what consumers are willing to pay for it, and the success of relatively novel music distribution schemes like iTunes shows that people are willing to pay for music if that rift is closed. Calling "music piracy" "theft" is the music industry's attempt to divert attention from their real problem, which is that their current pricing and distribution model is obsolete.
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CURRENT TUNES
- Nickelson - Yin (Solid Globe Remix)
- Deep Dish - Say Hello
- Syntax - Bliss (Wrecked Angle Mix)
- The Chemical Brothers - Hold Tight London
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