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And you have never broken a law without knowing it?
Braking a law that you are unaware of makes you ignorant and not STUPID. I also add that ignorance of the law does not make the law breaking right.

Most file sharers are ignorant kids that do not comprehend the tangible worth of the files they download because they cannot touch them. They probably share their cd's with little Bubba and MaryJane in a manner that would comply with the law. To them file sharing is an extenstion of that intent and belief.

Granted there are many downloaders that do this simply because they do not want to pay for the songs they listen to and those people are thieves and are stupid. There are those too, that download for monetary gain.....again stupid thieves.

I stand on my statement most people that start out in P2P networking are ignorant of the laws they might be breaking. All they know is that this a cool way to get music, an extention of their current belief system. I don't believe that the majority of thise folks go in with the INTENT to steal. The PERCEPTION of the internet and all that goes with it is that anything on the net is free and the net is just another tool to share what they have.
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P2P COULD be used legitimately ...  worknman | 08/10/04
~~~~~~~~Question  EnterPrise_Analyst | 08/10/04
Because without infringement, P2P would die tomorrow.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/10/04
Without p2p, the internet wouldn't exist  tic swayback | 08/10/04
Darn it Tic, you stole my thunder! lol  DigitalKid | 08/12/04
LOL..sorry for my many typos in last post..  DigitalKid | 08/12/04
Toulouse and Gartenberg = clueless  magila | 08/10/04
What are you talking about?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/10/04
NO  Jeff Spicoli | 08/10/04
Ah yes more cluelessness  magila | 08/10/04
One good deed doesnt erase a life time of illegal activity.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/10/04
Why not just ban the internet  NemesisNL | 08/10/04
Encouraging legit uses is a good thing  tic swayback | 08/10/04
p2p may have some good uses  V Sanders | 08/10/04
bwhahahahaha  magila | 08/10/04
burden of proof...  ryusen | 08/10/04
lol  johnnyu | 08/11/04
That's only how it works in the judicial branch  Michael Kelly | 08/11/04
By this token, do you also believe FTP should be outlawed?  Taz_z | 08/11/04
but,...  V Sanders | 08/10/04
won't be getting a trojan  cjules13 | 08/10/04
P2P  AbsolutelyNot | 08/10/04
So shut down P2P and there will still be  Squawkbox | 08/10/04
they might be engaging in theft. - No, ARE  wiskowst | 08/11/04
And you have never broken a law without knowing it?  Squawkbox | 08/11/04
There is no theft in downloading  Hanover Phist | 08/11/04
Canada?  rapson | 08/11/04
Canada's stance is not that  voska | 08/11/04
ms iste still says coming soon  V Sanders | 08/10/04
The problem I have is the size of the updates  jbaviera@... | 08/11/04
That's why they are making free CDs for your local Fry's  Confused by religion | 08/11/04
Shutting down P2P is conviction without crime  Protector | 08/11/04
This wouldn't pass  johnnyu | 08/11/04
Did you know that lots of people SPEED on the roads?!?!?  beggenbe@... | 08/12/04
MS has a very good reason to want you to use automatic updates  hadaso | 08/11/04
Windows Update still works on Win98  davidphogan74 | 08/15/04
Win ME still does auto-updates  Neil Parks | 08/26/04
No Fear Peer to Peer  BenEBrady | 08/13/04
XP SP2 Retriever  BenEBrady | 08/13/04

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