[Chancellor]

Quote by: ZNFYRH Chancellor Movies and music are the only products where you basically are expected to purchase the entire product based on a terribly limited sample.

I go into a grocery store and there's a woman standing there with samples of a new brand of dip (or cheese or sausage or something else). I try one; I like it and decide to buy some. Now, the choice to buy that product was based on that terribly limited sample and yet in order to buy some I have to buy an entire package.

Almost anything else you can, given the right circumstances, put your hands on and try for yourself.

Well, you can go to a library and read a book but you won't own a copy yourself until you actually go to the store (or online) and buy it.

You walk through a house, or test drive a car, or sample a piece of pie.

But eating a piece of pie is still a terribly limited sample.

As long as I'm expected to take a small sample and commit to the entire product, I'll find a way to sample the entire product and decide if it's worth my money.

So, you'll find a way to eat the whole pie instead of just a piece? That seems awfully selfish of you.

There's a bookstore I sometimes go to where I can pick up a CD, run it the barcode across a scanner, and listen to a portion of every song on the CD. That's enough for me to decide whether or not I want to buy the CD. Why do you think you have to have the right to violate an artist's copyright and actually download the entire song onto your computer (or the entire CD) for free?