Help please? I'm perplexed :) - Page 3

Hey Perplexed -- no trolling going on here.  We're just doing the forum thing.  Feel free to put me on ignore.

khoas974 -- all your points are correct from a pactical standpoint.  You are taking me seriously, which is a big mistake -- I'm just pointing out all the theoretical flaws in your logic (lots of them), just to twist you up a bit ... and you take yourself so seriously too ... but indeed you have made a ton of logical mistakes ... however everything you say about what to do in practice is correct of course ... not the argument I'm making ... you totally miss the point here ... but I give up and will just put you on ignore.  You think I'm serious about  a "flac-eating virus" ???   Of course it COULD happen .. uh oh, here we go again ... no no no .

deadlylover -- now this is important.  When you buy a used CD and the original owner kept copies, YOU are not the one depriving the artist of money.  The original owner is the criminal.  The purchase price of the original CD, and the license it is sold under, includes the right to stop using it, destroy all copies, and sell it to someone else.  This is all fine, and the artist has been compensated perfectly -- the re-sale possibility is priced in to the original copy.  But as the second owner you are in moral hazard if you think it likely that the original owner did not destroy his copies.  What one does when in moral hazard is up to the individual.  You have done no crime, but still.  My answer is to buy more CDs from the artist if you like what you hear.  I refuse to accept your lumping me in with the real pirates.  Think about it.  I have, deeply. 

Over and out ... I've got music to listen to, and CDs to buy.

deadlylover -- now this is important.  When you buy a used CD and the original owner kept copies, YOU are not the one depriving the artist of money.  The original owner is the criminal.  The purchase price of the original CD, and the license it is sold under, includes the right to stop using it, destroy all copies, and sell it to someone else.  This is all fine, and the artist has been compensated perfectly -- the re-sale possibility is priced in to the original copy.  But as the second owner you are in moral hazard if you think it likely that the original owner did not destroy his copies.  What one does when in moral hazard is up to the individual.  You have done no crime, but still.  My answer is to buy more CDs from the artist if you like what you hear.  I refuse to accept your lumping me in with the real pirates.  Think about it.  I have, deeply.