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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gause, Brian [mailto:bgause@SECTORBASE.COM]
> Sent: 05 March 2001 21:21
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: [idm] macrovision is your friend <BEWARE: RANTING>
>
>
> Napster has changed my buying habits, but I still buy
> stuff I heard
> online that I wouldn't have purchased otherwise...so it works
> both ways. But
> no one cares about that, eh, because only the possible LOSS of
> money stands
> out in everyone's mind.
>
> But Napster is available to a wider audience, therefore it's evil because
> these people are "losing" possibly LARGER amounts of money. So
> something is
> only bad if it's bad for a LOT of people? Is that the message
> we're learning
> here? So much for things like objective thought and freedom.
That's true. As another example, when I first heard that Fatcat's e-rmx
series was online and available for free download I was very happy that I
wouldn't have to shell out any of my cash for it. However I was so taken
with the Lucky Kitchen track that I had to have it in my hands as a piece of
vinyl; whether I could afford it or not...
quoted 13 lines Problems like this only go away when people learn that life isn't about
> Problems like this only go away when people learn that life isn't about
> *maintaining* a certain income, but earning what you make and making what
> you earn. Why don't people understand this? Why are record
> companies exempt
> from this sort of morality? Aren't these people human, too? Don't
> they have
> better things to do than worry about whether their company makes $1.50 or
> $1.67 extra today?
>
> Money is important. I understand. But so is enjoying life. If your entire
> focus is on those 17 extra cents, that's a problem.
>
> ---brian
It's always bothered me how companies are not just obsessed with making
money, but with making MORE money than they're already making; always trying
to figure out ways to corner new areas of their potential market. Most of
the multinational's are raking in the cash as it is, do they really need
more?
G-love.
http://www.gram.org.uk
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