I'm terribly annoyed with all the people that feel entitled to use
souseek as their only source... People really need to get over their
entitlement issues and support their artists....
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> From: MaRc [mailto:highrophant@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:38 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: [idm] the only ones that win r...
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> on the subject of life after soulseek, mp3 downloading and
> respect for artists etc, has anyone else realised that the
> only ones that win are the corperates anyway - explanation....
> you download using what? a communications
> line/phone/broadband/cable etc and you pay a corperate company,
> you download onto your hard drive, which you bought of a
> corperation, when its full you either buy another one or burn
> cd's, which you bought of another corperation etc etc so at
> the end of the day the corperations are laughing because they
> are getting paid, so whats the state of play? pay only for
> what you are forced to pay for and take/steal everything
> which you can get away with?
> what if soulseek was a subscriptions based service for idm
> labels - pay a monthly fee - download what you like - then
> through electronic monitoring those labels who contribute
> content can claim a share - im sure an economist could make
> it workable - any comments - im sure this is already the case
> with some webclubs, but its yet to be implemented in some
> open forum capacity - food for thought - any response from
> Soulseek themsleves?
>
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