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From: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l () gmail com> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012
00:16:39 +0100  On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:26 PM,
<Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:02:09
PST, "Zach C." said:  If you buy an album used, the seller
generally loses possession of it, you gain possession of it at a
reduced cost, and the original purchase still gave the original
seller and producer value.  Note that if I shoplift a CD that
sucks and isn't worth the $14.99 sticker price, I have deprived
the producer of the ability to sell it to somebody else.  That's
the crucial point that underlies our social concept of "theft" -
if I take it from you, you don't have it anymore.  If I copy an
album that isn't worth the sticker price, and which I would not
have purchased at that price, two things of note happen:  1) As
much as the labels wish it were so, they can't count that as
"lost revenue" b