The beginning of the end for P2Ps/Torrent Sites?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Jan

Just imagine if usage of the Amen break would be illegal (technically it is, but the Winstons don't/didn't care)... an entire genre of music gone. If you think about it, culture is just taking something old and rearraging it slightly. Too restrictive copyright will lead to less cultural diversity.

It needs to be restrictive enough that it stops people from stealing the work of musicians.

Originally Posted by Jan

I know 90% of the music I listen to from the Internet... what would happen if copyright law would actually be enforced! I guess we would return to sharing cassettes and CDs like 'in the old days', but that was very limited.
As a music lover I feel criminalized... I spend a lot of money for CDs and try to buy everything I like. How is that different from going into a record store and listening to CDs there before you bought them (I wish there was a good record store here, I love good record stores).

Listening to a preview is one thing. But if you then walked out of the CD store with CDs you didn't pay for, then that's stealing. And that's exactly the same as downloading a free digital copy of an album or single that's commercially available.

Originally Posted by Jan

There will always be idiots like those, but this is a general problem of society and not limited to this one aspect.

Agreed. And these idiots are why we have laws - to hold them accountable for the actions they take that hurt others.