http://www.paylars.com/more_info.asp
A very good (and funny) example of the aubsurdies of the anti MP3
hype/Napster lawsuit.
Sometimes it is so easy to fall into it all. Remember, it's only music. If
you think about it hard enough, music dosen't even exsist.
It's a sad day when people compare trading some music to a friend to
breaking and entering and theft of personal property.
-Lee
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune wrote:
quoted 73 lines Hey, I'm starting a web company called...
> Hey, I'm starting a web company called...
>
> www.breakin.com
>
> it's going to list city by city the best houses to break into based on
> how much good music there is to steal. Cause you know, music should be
> free right. It's the right of a free society to have free music even
> though someone might have spent a lot of money producing that music and
> their very lively hood depends on it. Anyone that tells you different is
> obviously 'censoring' you or even worse could be a 'capitalist'. So
> anyone that really beleives in this free music for all concept, let me
> know your adress so I can get you up on the site right away.
>
> for the record, I think there are positive aspects to online music, and I
> still havn't decided yet whether the piracy outweighs the promotion and
> we still sell a good amount of records so I don't lose to much sleep over
> it, but both sides of this argument are so extremely up their own asses
> in bogus theory, that I'm kind of tired of even bothering to explain.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> >DISCLAIMER - I do not intend for this message to precede a debate on
> >copyright laws !
> >
> >
> >Anyone interested in the ongoing Napster debate may want to check the
> >latest news....
> >
> >Part 1 - Metallica brought a list of more than 317,000 Napster usernames
> >to the company, alleging that each of those individuals had illegally
> >made the band's songs available for copying online. Napster says more
> >than 30,000 members have taken the company up on that offer, swearing
> >under penalty of perjury that they have been misidentified by
> >Metallica's online search. The company now will present those names to
> >Metallica, which will have 10 days to sue the 30,000 members. If the
> >band decides against taking action, the names will be reinstated. So
> >far Metallica has received appeals from 17,000 users.
> >
> >Part 2 - 4,294 students at 10 New England colleges were polled and
> >58.5% said they would be willing to pay $15 a month for subscription
> >services. Webnoize analyst Ric Dube said "If the music industry could
> >embrace the Napster concept and get people to spend $15 a month on a
> >subscription basis, they'd convert some people who spend less than $10 a
> >month and could grow the music market,".
> >
> >In short my friends this isn't about the rights of the artist it's about
> >the rights of the industry to make money - which I feel is valid -
> >unfortunately they are pointing out how unfair it is to the ARTIST.
> >Anyone who has ever released music on a major label will know that about
> >.30 cents actually makes it to the artist per average $15 sale for a cd.
> >It's not about the artist. It's about the industry. Once the industry
> >figures out how to get their 'cut' this will all be over..... They
> >probably couldn't give 2 shits whether the artists are getting their
> >royalties off the illegal trading of MP3's.
> >
> >Part 3 - Napster may be making moves against NetPD and other companies
> >that would serve as copyright police. In the most recent version of its
> >software license, Napster writes that people may not use the program to
> >"invade the privacy of, obtain the identity of, or obtain any personal
> >information about (including but not limited to IP addresses of) any
> >Napster account holder or user."
> >
> >
> >Full Story Here.....
> >http://technews.netscape.com/news/0-1005-200-1888080-0.html?pt.netscape.fd
> >.hl.ne
> >
>
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