According to Calvin, ‘[S]tealing is not simply committed with our hands, when … someone is able to steal another person’s money or coins. But stealing occurs when a man possesses what isn’t his, and when we don’t attempt to protect what God has put in a person’s hands’. (John Calvin, Sermons on the Ten Commandments (ed. Benjamin Farley; trans. Benjamin Farley; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), 190–1).
… but then he never knew about how P2P can save the planet.
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‘when a man possesses what isn’t his’. Hmmm what is mine? My land? My ideas? My honour?
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If you buy a CD, you own it. It is your property, to do with as you please. So, if you choose to share that CD with others, I think you should be free to do so. How is sharing music any different from reading a book and then loaning that book to someone else to read?
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That’s a point… also if I read a book aren’t I copying some of it onto my memory if I am able to remember it – thus enfringing copyright?
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Come now! If you LOAN someone a book that is fine, if they xerox every page that is different. So with music, if you LOAN someone a CD to listen to that is fine, but to make a copy or ipod it is stealing because for all intensive purposes there are now two copies and only one is paid for.
As far as copying it onto your memory. Well that’s just silliness. So if you look at the monalisa and walk away, your stealing?! If something is saved in your brain, that is not stealing. If you then USE it as if it is your own (plagiarism) or for your own profit. That IS stealing.
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I should specify: If you make a copy of a CD or copy to an Ipod FOR SOMEONE ELSE, or from someone else’s CD. That is stealing.
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There’s a simple solution to this dilemma.
Download the album illegally. Then send ten dollars to the band.
Global warming = solved.
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Instead of stealing it, download the entire album on iTunes or Zune marketplace. Buy it from them instead of steeling it. There you go. Your solution. You save the environment while helping the artist by paying for it. You don’t have to steal it by using p2p to eliminate waste. Don’t be cheap.
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