Music Piracy or Theft?
May 26th, 2009 by Lior Shamir
In a thought-provoking post on the MidemNet Blog, Peter Jenner, President of the UK’s International Music Managers Forum (IMMF), explores the personification of music piracy, underscoring key distinctions between ‘piracy’ and ‘theft’ that have largely been ignored or rejected by the music industry and, perhaps, even concealed to a pragmatic and moral music sharing public.
“If you steal my money I don’t have that money anymore. If you copy my music I still have it, and so does everyone else who has it. No one loses anything, the supply of copies just increases.”
Read the entire entry here.
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