Piracy not theft because its a copy..

[richardhutnik]

Gobias said:

Except that I said cops, and meant cops. Police enforce the law and punish those who break it, does the RIAA have those powers? Not so much.

The RIAA does those lawsuits to make examples of people and try to scare other pirates. If they had really cared about ending piracy why not get someone with a 2 tb external HDD filled with illegal music who ripped all their music and shared it over a P2P program?

But, this is all dependent on where you live anyways, in Canada piracy isn't condoned but they never seek pirates, or arrest them.

The RIAA asks you not to download this song, by the way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg

 

Weird Al didn't want embedding, so I will honor his request on how to handle his intellectual property.