On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:03:33 +0100, "Graybags" <gbas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>"Ronald Cole" <ronald@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:m3d6e3q5oa.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Matt Griffin <deedlydee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> > a 12 year old shoplifter is still a shoplifter.
>>
>> How do you explain the difference to a child between recording and
>> listening to music on a radio and recording and listening to music on
>> a computer?
>
>Stealing is stealing. However, the odd song recorded from the radio is...
>1. Not copying thousands of files and sharing them (possibly for
commercial
>gain)
>2. Untraceable.
>
>Taking a pound from your mum's bedside table is wrong, but robbing a bank
>waving a gun around is the one that's likely to land you in deep do-do.
>
>See the difference, now? It's called scale.
>
But it is not stealing. Stealing is when you deprive someone of their
property without their permission. If I take a picture of the "Mona
Lisa" I have not stolen it. If it was in a Xerox machine and I pressed
the "copy" button and did not touch the original I have not stolen it.
I have a copy. A poor one at that.
When you record a movie off of HBO or tape a song from the radio, it
is not stealing, Neither is it stealing if you download an .mp3. You
merely have a poor copy of the original. These asshats at the RIAA
and BMI and the like need to get a grip. They acted like this when
cassettes and vcr's were introduced. They got over it then and I think
if they can get over it now they may be able to find the real cause of
slumping cd sales. Which is that the music they are putting out now
sucks. It sucks bad. Right now there isn't even ONE BAND on the radio
now that is even as good as KaJa GooGoo was. And they weren't that
great. File swapping is nothing but the recording industry's way of
assigning blame to someone that won't get fired. "Really, I don't suck
at my job finding new talent. I found good bands. It's these damn
downloaders. That is why music is not selling. Yeah, that's the
ticket"
Oh, and to Matt Griffin, if your music doesn't suck, then why not
have people download it? I never heard of you. No one I know has heard
of you. They way to get people to pay $40 a ticket to hear your music
is by getting millions to know your music. That is where the money is.
No one can "steal" a live performance. I would think that massive
trading of your music could do nothing but help you. Before Napster I
had never heard of "Lords of Acid" or "Johhny Rebel". But now I know
who they are and would pay good money to see them play. I would
probably buy the cd's if they were available. That is how it works in
the "new system". You make music. People either hear it on the radio,
see it on mtv, or download it. You go on tour. You play your music.
You make millions. Notice I said nothing about selling cd's. Cd's are
promotional items. They induce concert attendance. Some people have
chosen to make their livings off of selling these cd's. They are
choosing the wrong cd's and hurting innocent people with law suits.
They will be out of business because of it. Don't sit around and whine
about not making money and blaming it on Kazaa. If you rock, let the
word out. Play a few gigs. But swapping is not stealing and the RIAA
SUCKS.
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