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  • Due to recently discovering it's illegal to rip CDs in this country I've spent the last week or so only listening to music I've downloaded, whether that be through iTunes, band websites, or various live bootlegs1. Two almost rhetorical questions, is there not an irony2 that now in keeping the law I'm listening to more music obtained without directly monetarily benefiting the artists? And secondly, isn't it arcane that I could have listened to Kid A if I'd kept the free downloaded edition from the BBC website from 2000, but as I've purchased it on CD now and copied over it, I can't?
  • I spoke on 1 Colossians: 21-29 yesterday. When Paul says "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church" is he, rather than being completely insanely heretical, actually talking about how Christ still has to suffer in his body (that is the church) before he will return and therefore Paul is happy that he is suffering as it fills up these lacking afflictions? I think this would make sense given the wider passage and Paul's different uses of the word body, but I'm willing to be wrong.

1 For example, the Idlewild bootleg from the live tour.

2 Yes, this is probably used wrong.

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Benjamin

If it's illegal but no-one is ever going to prosecute you, and the party who might possibly prosecute you say its a silly law and they won't prosecute you and they want the law changed... is it really breaking the law of the land after all?

Written by Benjamin at 23:49, Fri, 25/01/08

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