It amazes me that people still have this attitude... they know they're doing something illegal, and rather than
not do it, they just wail and moan about how unfair it is when they get caught!
Theft is theft, I don't care whether you're walking into a shop and stealing a CD or downloading it from someone else's hard disk, fact is you're stealing the intellectual property of the person who recorded that. Hence no sympathy from me.
Oh, and as for why they picked Uni people? I would imagine two reasons:
1) IP addresses are all static and easily traceable to email address and real addresses.
2) If you're going to make an example of someone, students are best because there are so many like-minded people around them so word of mouth will travel
fast.
I know I'm in the minority but I think people should PAY the people who are trying to make a living from recording music, I don't care at all if the cost of a CD is too expensive for a "poor" person to buy, if you can't afford it you
can't have it, just like anything else in life.
And if anyone wants to comment about how the publishers get all the money anyway, ask yourself who'd publish them if they didn't? Without the publishers getting their cash the band would make no money at all, as they'd HAVE no publisher.
Sorry about the rant, I just loathe the hypocrisy that is the theft of music.... usually fine upstanding people somehow think it's ok to steal something just because there's nothing tangible being transferred.
Rant over.
