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Originally Posted by MattR644
Why should the rules of capitalism be different for music and movies than everything else? They charge as much as the market bears. Do you steal gas because it costs too much? They're just running business like everyone else, it's just easier to steal their product anonymously. Granted people follow laws in proportion to how much they respect them (i.e. speeding and underage drinking is much more rampant than murder and rape), but just because it's easy to steal songs doesn't make it any different than stealing anything else because it's priced higher than you think it should be.
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Rules are the same, I agree. But you have to approach the situation (if you're the RIAA) knowing that you can't arrest every person who downloads material and that downloading will not stop. So you have to be smart and adapt to a new reality, otherwise you will always be on the losing end. People simply don't care. There are many ways to bring both parts together, but the RIAA chose confrontation and bullying, and where did that take them?