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I was hoping you’d tell us your version of the pledge of allegiance to the constitution.
As far as copyrights go, do you believe it is right in principle for a musician to sell a cd and a fan to share the digital information (mp3) with thousands of people? Is that theft? I’m sure the intention of the musician is to only give his music to people that pay him to listen. Is there another way besides law to protect his music from being pirated?
“As far as copyrights go, do you believe it is right in principle for a musician to sell a cd and a fan to share the digital information (mp3) with thousands of people?”
-Yes. Everyone has a right to arrange there own property in anyway they want to even if they arrange it the same way someone else has. For example if I own some paper and ink I have a right to arrange my own ink in anyway I want to on my own paper even if an author of a book previously arranged his own ink in the same way on his own paper.
“Is that theft?”
-Arranging my own property is never theft. If I arrange my furniture in the same way you have am I stealing anything from you? Of course not. In the same way magnetizing certain sectors of my own hard drive (that’s all “writing data” is) is well within my property rights as the owner of the hard drive and yes I can magnetize sectors of my hard drive in the exact same way someone else has and no one has had anything stolen from them.
“I’m sure the intention of the musician is to only give his music to people that pay him to listen.”
-Then the burden is on him to figure out a way to do that without forcefully denying everyone else there “right and control of property” (D&C 134:2) by doing something like asking government to forcefully deny me my right to magnetize any sector of my hard drive in any pattern I want to.
“Is there another way besides law to protect his music from being pirated?”
-This question is flawed because merely magnetize sectors on my own hard drive in a pattern I desire isn’t taking anything away from anyone including the artist.