Petition to Stop RIAA
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"i think a lot of automobiles are grossly overpriced. should i steal them off the lot?"
see, there's the problem, that is not a good analogy at all... yet people use analogy's like this all the time when debating this matter....
were are talking about a digital medium... a unique sequence of bits, not a car.
what makes this issue even more interesting too, is that an mp3 is inferior by definition alone. it filters out sounds that are not audible by the human ear. what that means is that this digital 'repoduction' is not really a duplicate of the original as the bits are totally different. proof: notice how significantly smaller an mp3 file is to a .wav or .cda file.
what you can say is that each set of bits produces a sound which is strikingly similar to the human ear...
find the thread 'Open Source' and look at my visual illustration. it shows a similar example that deals with images, but it's the same principle.