<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Boris Turovskiy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tourovski@gmail.com">tourovski@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
can you please explain where the principal difference is between me sharing a car with my friend and me sharing a song with my friend?<br></blockquote></div><br>A car is an object. If you drive your car, nobody else can. It is your property. You are free to share it with people or to keep it for yourself, but if you let someone else drive it, you cannot use it in the meantime.<br>
<br>A song is not physical. You can sing it while a thousand people sing it at the same time. You can easily make a digital copy of a music without stealing anything from the people who have the original. You may have rights on your song, but property is a nonsense.<br>
<br>This is a huge difference, enough to consider intellectual property as <span id="result_box" class="short_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="">inconsistent with pirate ideas.<br><br>(And please, keep calm, and do not insult people…)<br>
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