New Rule Proposal

Initially I thought that your proposal was too harsh, insofar as its not the place of TB to be the moral police on behaviour. That, TB can regulate what is discussed on its forums, but to effectively penalise admissions of guilt is really a legal matter and not a TB one. TO use an example: we can't discuss illegal drug taking on TB and threads discussing it are locked. However, I would think it odd if you got an infraction for admitting in a thread that you had smoked some weed, for example. Although it might be an inappropriate topic for discussion, the mere admission of doing something illegal isn't itself against the rules.

On the other hand, I can see your point that this is a music website and we are a community of musicians. THerefore we should hold each other to higher standards vis a vis musicians rights than others. To this extent I can see why its not so much TB serving as moral police so much as it is TB looking afters its bretheran (and the 3 girls who use TB). On balance, I support your proposal (but I do think it's on the harsh side).

$0.02.

Edit: As someone who doesn't download music I haven't paid for and whose life wouldn't be affected either way by this rule change, I am half expecting an angry Canadian to come and tell me I have no standing to discuss this topic!

 

I don't think the forum admins would feel comfortable enacting this rule and enforcing it, and of course I disagree with your premise, but I understand your moral obligation to put it forward. I also have to say that while you may think me to be the lowest form of scum, your adhesion to your moral code has won you a lot of respect in my eyes in spite of the non-constructive indignation you displayed in the last thread. I think that if everybody came forward and confessed to downloading, this would be a very lonely board, and I also think that this rule would do nothing to improve the problems in the music industry besides assuaging your own conscience by covering up the problem so you don't have to see it. I also think that the majority of people on this board who download music like the artists they listen to enough to buy the albums anyway, as opposed to non-musicians who would download the music without seeing the consequences from an artists' perspective.

What's the "Canadian Argument"?

 

I want nothing to do with "The Culture Of The Snitch". Save "being an informant" for important issues like physical violence or child abuse.

 

You're welcome. I *am* looking forward to the "rebuttal" you mentioned to the - what was it you called it? The "Canadian Argument"? - by the way. Although it's probably best if you set up your own thread for it; we want to keep the OT stuff to a minimum.

 

Thanks for the clarification - and thanks also for the heads-up about the rules of this sub-forum, Mike, which I should have read more closely. Have a good one!

- K

 

Just curious why that argument is Canadian - is that because it's legal to download here but not to upload?