| Spat, not everybody owns a printing press and a book binder, and that much paper costs money. However, CDs are cheap and CD burners are plentiful.
Pooeypants, we already have free mp3 players, free cd burning software, and plenty of people willing to produce various means to fileshare/expoit copy protection/create all manner of helpful tools related to the field.
Now, as for the communist thing, let me repeat what I said earlier: Record companies don't fairly compensate their artists, and their copyright laws stifle creativity. All artwork is derivative work, nobody lives in a bubble.
Artists' rights mean nothing when they can be bought or sold. If Michael Jackson can own the right to produce Beatles albums (which means Ringo Starr doesn't), then I've no reason to believe that the rights that are expounded upon by the record companies are in any way sacrosanct.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |