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Dependent label boss (that’s a label named Dependent, not a typo, all right?) Stefan Herwig has issued an open challenge to people who are pro-filesharing, inviting them to meet him face to face in a hotel lobby, restaurant or hotel room. No, it’s for not some sort of red-light rendezvous, but rather, Stefan wants filesharing folk to put forward their arguments as to why filesharing is OK.

Obiously a little agitated, Stefan said, “Real arguments here are rare, but a couple of attention whores seem to find it remarkably funny to show up with nicknames like ‘i stole ur muzak’, etc. Its all fun and games on a forum, but does anyone of you cool file sharing people really have some ‘real life’ arguments to backup your evil deeds and justify file sharing?”

Just for you, Stefan, here are some of our arguments to backup our “evil deeds”:

Firstly, why shouldn’t we be allowed to use filesharing programs like Limewire? We have been copying tapes, recording radio shows, burning each other’s CDs and much more for years. No-one came out and told us this was wrong or would bring down the music industry until the process of sharing music was fully integrated into modern society.

Likewise, for those people caught filesharing, where are the police raids searching for home-recorded tapes and CDs? Furthermore, tell us how you are going to regulate filesharing when so many people have been doing it for so long? Until some real solution can be put forward, there isn’t even an argument.

The music industry’s response to filesharing has been so slow and confusing that the general public no longer cares about whether it’s right or wrong — we just want music.

Also, Stefan Herwig, the arguments against filesharing are heavily based on appealing to people’s morals with regards to the wellbeing of large, corporate entities. The general public have no reason to care about whether businesses survive or not because all people want is music.

It’s unfair to expect the general public to think one way with regards to big businesses, when at the same time, it’s those big businesses who are selling us MP3 players, music software, ways to burn our own CDs, right back to tape-to-tape recording devices.

It was far too late into the game before the general public was told about why music copyright is important. Why would Sony make blank tapes and minidiscs unless they wanted us to copy music?

Even before filesharing came about, there were websites from which MP3s could be downloaded. I do not remember a fuss being made in the public eye about these websites. What do you expect the public to think if the arguments aren’t in the public eye until it is at the music industry’s convenience?

We’ve got a whole bunch more arguments about filesharing, so if you would like to meet us, Stefan Herwig, we’d be more than happy.

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