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Let’s face it: we’ve all pirated something in our lifetimes. I used to look up my favorite songs on limewire because I reasoned that the paying users of the program made up the cost of the stuff I was downloading for free. No unhappy artists, right?
Wrong of course. Whenever we download music without paying for it, we’ve just stolen food out of some artist’s mouth, so to speak. Musicians earn their living by selling music. If we steal it, it’s the same as stealing a car from a used car lot. That used-car salesman may have been annoying, but he has to make his living somehow.
However, there is the other side of the coin. I inherited an old I-phone from my dad (now it’s my I-”pod” touch) which has all my music on it. I was a little worried that i could only sync it to 6 computers, but didn’t worry about it much then.
Then my laptop died, and I got a temporary one. And then the one I use now. Let’s take a quick tally: my 3 computers + my dad’s 2 & mom’s 1 which it was originally synced to. That accounts for all 6. And those first two and my mom’s & dad’s first computer’s don’t work any more so I can’t un-sync them.
Fast forward a while and I’m married. I can’t share my music with my wife or our desktop because of all the lost shares. And by now, my third laptop won’t sync with my I-”pod” without erasing everything. My I-”pod” hasn’t been synced in years.
Apple is going to make me buy music that has been mine legitimately for years. This isn’t my teenage-fazed copy of one of Nickleback’s songs: it’s my family’s Collective soul albums, that I love timelessly (they remind me of my dad).
So what do I do? Steal music I already own? Or just bite my tongue and pay hundreds of dollars for music I already own? Hey, wouldn’t that be Apple stealing from me?
