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Being able to easily distribute and share music can help artists in other ways that can indirectly increase their income. Let's say someone illegally downloaded
by TommyDANGerous 14y ago
Being able to easily distribute and share music can help artists in other ways that can indirectly increase their income. Let's say someone illegally downloaded an artist's music and liked it so much shared it with their friends, then their friends share etc. I remember sometime ago a little girl 's house was raided because some anti-piracy commission used tax dollars to have the police and swat team raid the girl's house because they believed or caught her downloading this one artist's music illegally. The artist whom that track belonged to was so embarrassed and felt so bad that this anti-piracy commission took it so far, I don't think the artist even cared.
- alexqgb 14y agoYou may not realize you've just made an argument from anecdote, but you have, and that represents a well-known logical fallacy. Moreover, this fallacy is famously favored by those who don't mind being deceptive when they find that facts, broadly speaking, are not on their side. More on the error here, where it is referred to as "The demagogue's best friend." http://www.jampole.com/wordpress/?p=329 http://www.jampole.com/wordpress/?p=329 Again, I'm not suggesting that you are a dishonest person, or that you are deliberately obscuring the issue. I am simply noting that your approach (which is a rhetorical failure) carries the additional fault of salubrious associations.