Well said!!
Joe the Lion
"Ookie Wonderslug" <ookie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:03:33 +0100, "Graybags" <gbas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Ronald Cole" <ronald@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >> 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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