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So, smart phone users can share song files by touching phones, which begs the question...
How is this different than the mp3 sharing that was going on 10 years ago? A lot of people here were like "you're stealing if you're using Napster, Bearshare, etc" yet smart phone companies are now actually using the fact that songs can be shared instantly as a marketing tool to sell more phones.
Someone pls explain.
Do you share/accept songs with your smart phone?
I'll admit I did some downloading using Napster and one or two other systems back in the day, but it was mainly to grab songs I had already paid for on CD, vinyl or tape just to have the digital versions. Since I'd already bought the album in one form or another I didn't feel guilty about downloading something I'd already paid for.
But as we all know there was a pretty massive uproar several years back, from the music industry and a lot of fairly self-riteous people, about people sharing songs over the internet, yet as we speak there are growing numbers of people by the millions out there doing it with hand-held devices.
I'd like to understand why one is acceptable but the other is an egregious no-no punishable by $1000 fines and up to two years in prison?
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