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Originally posted by Geoff332@Sep 10 2003, 08:56 PM
So, if the majority of people wanted to kill all jews (for example), it would be undemocratic for a Government to pass legislation to prevent it? Or perhaps you only object to property rights: so how about if the vast majority of people wanted to take the land off all Jews and distribute it to non-Jews. How about speeding. The vast majority of people speed, does this make it illegal to have speeding tickets (and who cares who dies)?
Or perhaps there are rights that transcend the will of the majority -- these rights usually include some form of human rights and property rights. I seem to recall these from somewhere -- usually in places like the founding documents of every democracy in existance. If you want to argue that property rights are immoral, that's a very different argument from the one you have proposed. I'm not sure how you conceive democracy, but the picture you've painted in that statement is a rather unpleasant one. |
Killing Jews crosses human rights. And although most people do speed from time to time, the vast majority agrees they should be there for general safety reasons (if at 70mph limit everyone does 80, if we went to 80 everyone would do 90). File sharing does not cross any human rights, nor do the majority think that with restrictions lifted there would be a spate of deaths.
File sharing doesn't harm anyone. As has been stated before, if publishers would stop trying to jack up the prices to make uber profits, we wouldn't have to download music. I don't know about other people, but music is a big part of my life, andon a student budget I can't afford to buy every album that takes my interest, so I download tracks and buy the albums once i've heard some of the none single stuff.
And as well as that, if it wasn't for file sharing I wouldn't own half the albums I do now, because I've been able to find smaller bands that don't have music played on radio often. Rockbitch being the best example which, due to their tendency to fist each other and have sex on stage, don't play in England anymore.