No laureth – did your mother ever tell you if everyone else is doing it is it still right?
If the answer to these qeustions are not self evident, then they need to be asked to help those blind to the obvious.
The real issue with respect to crazy horse is extremely deep. This is much more interesting.
Is it wrong to copy music?
The silly issue is how could you not think the rabbi wouldn’t take issue. That’s like in the job definition. (I’m not jewish). You don’t have to belong to any particular religion to recognize the irony.
The real issue IMHO is. Is intellectual property rights truely ethical? What is the outcome to society? Does this violate freedoms that are inalienable rights.
When you begin to sanction the product of thought, how close are we on the slippery slope to legally regulating thought?
Would there be a benifit to the greater good to avoid this? Would it be more ethical.
The ultimate example of insane wealth through intellectual property right is our good friend and satanic symbol Bill Gates. Hallowed be thine evilness.
If the tree can be judged by the exploitive “cutting off of air supply” fruit, that our society has given the nod to, then perhaps we are simply building the intellectual equivalant of sodom and gommorah.
Ideas need to be set free. Memes, whatever need hosts to survive in. The biology of intellectual rights is very complex.
So – was Crazy horse wrong? – Can you own the air we breathe?
BTW – I pay 100% for my music, and I will spit on Bill Gates, given the chance. He is Evil.