bill wright wrote :
quoted 7 lines Right, well.... I just hope that once it's impossible to make money>Right, well.... I just hope that once it's impossible to make money
>with music, Aphex and Autechre and BoC and u-ziq only send their new
>tunes to a very small close circle friends they can trust not to
>spread the work, rather than making any attempts to distribute them.
>This, way, the jerks who feels they have a inborn right to someone
>else's work won't have the chance to listen to them, paid or not
>paid for...
if you, mr. wright, consider listening to music to be stealing it,
then you've got to think a bit more about the philosophy of
intellectual property and the propagation of culture. the current
industry has no concept for the mp3 format, so people think of it as
a way to pirate compact discs--what if we think of it as a more
diverse, customizable radio station ? of course it's neither, it's a
new medium that must be handled in a new way. and this discussion
just can't go on until we see some real repercussions from it all--it
just hasn't been around long enough. everybody's saying 'napster
ruins lives, napster screws over artist and execs', but nobody can
prove a thing. funny how the only musicians who are being 'ruined'
by it are lars fucking ulrich and mr. dre (no phd!). cheers to jeff
from ninja tune for his forward-thinking outlook. hats off to the
kronstadt sailors.
and as for mr. mccoppin, who feels that musicians trying to earn a
living making music is a recent phenomenon (and is somehow a
degradation of an idealized world where all composers wrote music
only for its own sake), or for sunspot, who feels that music is
simply not profitable at all, well... that's all crazy talk, and i
think you both know it. in a capitalist society no art exists
independantly of the economy. that vague sentence should answer
every question on the matter.
and i hope that counts as opinion enough for our hot-headed friend
martin who rekindled this age-old argument. cheers.
.af.
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