"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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>
>  Let's compare it to another very similar industry: The software industry.
> Both music and software are both intangible intellectual property. The 
> exact
> same copyright laws protect both music and software. They are by all
> practical means almost identical things from a legal point of view.
>

(Caution: Sarcasm may be employed)

Or better yet, let's compare it to the paper industry.  Specifically, blank 
"copy" paper, for use in copy machines.  Obviously, this is going to be used 
(and indeed has been used) to make multiple copies of copyrighted material. 
Instead of buying 26 copies of the latest Forbes magazine, just to give all 
of the board members a copy of the latest article, the CEO decides that 
he'll just use the copy machine.  26 copyright violations right there. 
Within his organization, you could probably find millions of violations, 
with thousands happening each day.  Why isn't the print media pursuing 
these?  Print Media has been losing revenue over the last several years, and 
obviously, this has to be the culprit.  Hundreds of billions of dollars per 
year are lost due to articles that are illegally copied.

Therefore, to make sure that the print media industry does not suffer 
irreparable damage due to this type of piracy, we should add a fee (tax) 
onto each ream of copy paper that gets sold.

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