| Naraku_Diabolos said: I recently got the latest Mandy Moore CD (don't make fun of me, I love her music) which was (I believe from what I read) was on Sony Records. Well, the CD itself is messed up. There's supposted to be 13 songs plus another 2 bonus songs which make 15 songs total. Well, after the 13 regular songs, there are 6 'filler songs of nothing but silence' and then came the 2 bonus songs. Kinda stupid and weird if you ask me. |
They just do that to seperate the bonus from the regular CD. I have a Coheed and Cambria CD that has like.... 30+ blank 1 second songs between the album and the secret bonus song.
Additionally I don't see why everyone compares copyright infringement to stealing.
Software Piracy is wrong... but that's like comparing taking a picture of Michalangelo's David and stealing it.
Or say... taking a postcard with Michelangelo's David... scanning it, and printing a copy for a friend.
That's the thing about software piracy. It needs to be a law because of how easy it can be copied. However put in in practice with any other product and it makes no sense.
It's like Kellogs sueing people for making Rice Crispy Treats when people could be buying them in the stores.
The only difference is the ease of copying it.
Of course the counter free narjet argument is that if people won't pay for it, people should just stop developing it for profit.
Which likely would come to fruition if such laws continued to exist. Would this be bad? Maybe. Maybe not. They would likely find other ways to exist such as advertising in product.
Piracy laws may just be a artificial way to let people keep archaic economic models for products that just don't fit the mold. Still while it's the law, it's the law... and that's the way most of them get paid at the moment.
Perhaps we'll see a shift occur though. EA is already trying it.
