The license terms between purchasing a CD and watching
a YouTube video are completely different.
Yes, that's why I included the proviso "moral justification rather than the legal justification"
You might argue that "well you can strip the GPL if
you don't redistribute it",
Yes, in case I wasn't clear in my post I was thinking of someone ripping a CD and keeping the MP3s for personal use. Distributing the artwork to other people would be a different matter altogether :)
however that is not what is happening in Streamus'
case. Streamus is technically redistributing music
A streamus supporter would probably say streamus is analogous to a VCR manufacturer, or a website that provides links to pirated content without hosting the content themselves. That because the big file comes from a youtube server, youtube is doing the distributing.
Personally I've always found such arguments a bit disingenuous, but there's merit to them in some cases.
Personally I've always found such arguments a bit disingenuous, but there's merit to them in some cases.