Originally Posted by
Instrumental
I'm not sure why you're asking me to re-read my question. I can't really tell if you have any qualms with the scenario I gave. Are you fine with it? And if so, are you okay with the person instead of receiving a CD as a gift, downloading the album from the person who did it. If not why? The end result is the same. If your only issue is in the person profiting from distributing the media that's fine, I don't agree with that either but then that leads to why one would persecute those that merely share the media with no profit involved (i.e. p2p networks). And why is copying with the intent to distribute to another person wrong if giving the album to someone as a gift is okay? The other person is getting the media for free, the artist receives no profit from it whatsoever and the original person who bought it would still have the album on their computer to use for his or herself.
And then you can go even further and get into people who buy a CD and when they grow tired of it, sell it to someone else. In that scenario and the aforementioned one, people are gaining access to the media without supporting the creator of it. Is that wrong? why or why not?