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Originally posted by Belle
In theft the original is taken away.
In sharing music, people might discover something they wouldn't have otherwise.
In theft, a person or industry is immediately affected.
In sharing music, I don't feel the guilt of funding some billionaire executive's cocaine habit.
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This.
There is actually a very big difference.
Firstly, no one gives a **** if people download music. They are more concerned with people that upload music and share it... and they are two very specific instances where it would raise a red flag by the FBI, or any persons legally representing a label for copyright claims...
1) If the person personally bought the song and shared it with friends. (Criminal Copyright Infringment)
2) It the person hacked their way into a server (like Sony's server, a producer's email, etc) or stole a physical copy of a song and leaked it online. (Trespassing and theft)
They have really interesting methods to track these kind of things, also. A while back different ways to implant unique codes into every digital track and track ripped from a physical disc came about so the song will be traced back anywhere from the credit card who purchased it in store to the IP address (etc) of the person who downloaded it from whatever server.
It's kinda crazy, if you really think about it, but it just goes to show what matters to them and what doesn't. They don't care about leaks as much as they care about people making sites where they can download hq media or files that shouldn't be released.