From: The soul that creates <themourn@yahoo.com>
quoted 3 lines listeners enjoy as well, the more money that makes its
> listeners enjoy as well, the more money that makes its
> way to the artists can mean better releases, more
> touring etc.
I rather feel that artists tour to make money, rather than the other way
around, but I see your point, as the necessary capital to organise a tour
may come out of record sales.
quoted 2 lines But when criminals like the bastard who ran Napster
> But when criminals like the bastard who ran Napster
> come along...no thats not a revolution, thats theft.
I don't agree. He put up a file-sharing service, he didn't say 'come here
and get all your copyrighted music for free'. This reminds me of the
argument in the past that ISPs were pornographers, because they allowed the
use of the Internet to download porn.
Besides which, Napster was a free service. I was in a discussion about warez
on another list recently and I'll say again what I said there: distributing
copyrighted material for free is not theft in my view, it is illegal
infringement on the distribution monopoly of the copyright holder. I know
that makes me sound like a lawyer, but then 'theft' has a legal meaning as
well, and it's not appropriate to describe what occurs. The only way forward
with issues like these is to get the terms correct and discuss the issue in
terms of what it actually is, rather than by faulty analogies (eg to the
theft of a physical object).
Anig Browl
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