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1. Comment - WinMX Shuts Down After RIAA Threat

   (Oct 3, 2005 - 7:07 PM)

   of course its illegal and wrong and blah blah blah... great. but why is it such a problem now? because suddenly they can track people down. long before the wonderful world of the internet, people were copying and stealing music en masse. record to tape, tape to tape and radio to tape all are forms of stealing and copying, but since the record companies couldn't track people down with as much ease as they can today, they didn't bother. i think a large part of the reason sites like winmx are not forced to be shut down outright is because it's a wonderful opportunity to take a bite out of that long existant community of music copying/stealing. the whole "we'll give you time to stop on your own" bit is a nice little farce. solving the problem would be too easy, now wouldn't it? maybe those stealing deserve it; but maybe the companies and artists have gotten too big for their own good as well. it's not a justification, just a point. i also think that it's not actually the fact that people can't steal that is upsetting, it's that the punishment really doesnt seem to fit the crime. $750 to $150,000 per song? please. is that really what a song goes for these days? used to be that the phrase "for a song" meant it was next to nothing in worth. my how times have changed...