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This question is aimed at those who do not already support illegally sharing music and other intellectual property.
What happens when you oppose people sharing music and wouldn't do it yourself, but you end up with an illegally copied CD anyway? A friend played a CD for me, I said I liked the music, and for my birthday, my friend gave me a copy of it. He didn't go out to a store and buy me a copy--he just copied his CD and gave me the copy. I never asked him to do that. I only appreciated the music. Now what do I do? If I listen to the CD, am I participating in the practice I oppose? Am I obligated to either get rid of it or go out and buy a "bought-and-paid-for" version of the CD "legally"? It was a gift--it wasn't supposed to cost ME anything.
Or, how about this scenario: You buy a box of random things at an auction. You're not sure all what's in it, but when you get it home, you find it has one or more "copied" CDs. If you listen to them, are you behaving unethically? You bought them legally, but when they were made, they were illegal.
What happens when you oppose people sharing music and wouldn't do it yourself, but you end up with an illegally copied CD anyway? A friend played a CD for me, I said I liked the music, and for my birthday, my friend gave me a copy of it. He didn't go out to a store and buy me a copy--he just copied his CD and gave me the copy. I never asked him to do that. I only appreciated the music. Now what do I do? If I listen to the CD, am I participating in the practice I oppose? Am I obligated to either get rid of it or go out and buy a "bought-and-paid-for" version of the CD "legally"? It was a gift--it wasn't supposed to cost ME anything.
Or, how about this scenario: You buy a box of random things at an auction. You're not sure all what's in it, but when you get it home, you find it has one or more "copied" CDs. If you listen to them, are you behaving unethically? You bought them legally, but when they were made, they were illegal.