David Lawrence host of the tech radio show Online Tonight mentioned this speech by Jack Valenti of the MPA (Motion Picture Association) at Duke University which addresses the moral issues involved with illegal movie downloads that also apply to music:
Making choices is a daily experience for Americans. Making the right choice emerges from a process that is rooted in instinct and intuition which leap from unshakable values. When you come to a fork in the road, which way do you go? If choices chosen by young people early in their learning environment are infected with a moral decay, how then can they ever develop the judgment to take the right fork in the road? How will you, when many of you are in leadership roles in the future, deal with younger employees who have learned as students that if you have the power to take what doesn't belong to them, you do it? As the leader of the enterprise, how will you come to grips with that? You'll be face-to-face with the breakage of the moral compact and, guess what; it's on your dime.
I never used Napster and I don't use any of the other file sharing services that have sprung up since Napster's demise. Why? Because no matter how you try to justify it you can't get around the fact that you're taking something that you haven't paid for. And that's stealing. Even if everyone else is doing it.
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